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Integration and reorganization costs and asset impairments | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2025
Restructuring and Related Activities [Abstract] |
Integration and reorganization costs and asset impairments | NOTE 8 — Integration and reorganization costs and asset impairments Integration and reorganization costs Integration and reorganization costs include severance costs as well as other reorganization-related costs associated with individual restructuring programs, designed primarily to right-size the Company's employee base, consolidate facilities and improve operations. These initiatives impact all the Company's operations and can be influenced by the terms of union contracts. Costs related to these programs, which primarily include severance and other reorganization-related costs, are accrued when probable and reasonably estimable or at the time of program announcement. Severance-related expenses The Company recorded severance-related expenses by segment as follows:
| Year ended December 31,
In thousands | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
USA TODAY Media | $21,252 |  | $11,529 |  | $9,935
Newsquest | 984 |  | 884 |  | 1,762
LocaliQ | 1,773 |  | 1,254 |  | 756
Corporate | 4,851 |  | 1,481 |  | 6,064
Total | $28,860 |  | $15,148 |  | $18,517
A roll-forward of the accrued severance and related expenses included in Accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the Consolidated balance sheets for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 is as follows:
In thousands | Severance and related expenses
Balance at December 31, 2023 | $6,928
Restructuring provision included in integration and reorganization costs | 15,148
Cash payments | (16,585)
Balance at December 31, 2024 | 5,491
Restructuring provision included in integration and reorganization costs | 28,860
Cash payments | (26,013)
Other(a) | 1,781
Balance at December 31, 2025 | $10,119
(a)For the year ended December 31, 2025, included $1.8 million related to the departure of the Company's former Chief Financial Officer. Other reorganization-related costs Other reorganization-related costs represent individual restructuring programs, designed primarily to right-size the Company's employee base, consolidate facilities and improve operations. The Company recorded Other reorganization-related costs by segment as follows:
| Year ended December 31,
In thousands | 2025 |  | 2024 |  | 2023
USA TODAY Media(a) | $(5,663) |  | $38,096 |  | $(4,353)
Newsquest(b) | 200 |  | (1,397) |  | 1
LocaliQ | — |  | 807 |  | 28
Corporate(c) | 8,198 |  | 13,501 |  | 10,275
Total | $2,735 |  | $51,007 |  | $5,951
(a)For the year ended December 31, 2025, included the reversal of withdrawal liabilities related to multiemployer pension plans of $12.2 million based on the settlement of the withdrawal liabilities. For the year ended December 31, 2024, included $25.9 million related to withdrawal liabilities which were expensed as a result of ceasing contributions to multiemployer pension plans and $9.7 million expensed as of the cease-use date related to certain licensed content. For the year ended December 31, 2023, included the reversal of withdrawal liabilities related to multiemployer pension plans of $6.4 million based on the settlement of the withdrawal liabilities. (b) For the year ended December 31, 2024, included the reversal of a withdrawal liability of $1.4 million related to a pension plan based on settlement of the withdrawal liability. (c)For the year ended December 31, 2025, included $2.1 million expensed related to the departure of the Company's former Chief Financial Officer. Asset impairments Corporate office relocation On March 1, 2024, we exited and ceased use of our leased facility in McLean, Virginia and moved our corporate headquarters to our existing office space in New York. As a result of the headquarters relocation, we recorded an impairment charge of approximately $46.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2024 related to the McLean operating lease right- of-use asset and the associated leasehold improvements. At the time of impairment, the fair value was measured using a discounted cash flow model based on market rents projected over the remaining lease term, which expires in October 2030. Beginning in 2025, the Company entered into a sublease agreement for the use of a portion of office space in our leased facility in McLean, Virginia. The sublease commenced on September 1, 2025, for a 5-year term with annual lease income of approximately $2.1 million. We continue to seek subleases for the remaining leased space.

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