BALTIMORE (AP) — Ravens cornerback Nate Wiggins is inactive for Baltimore's game Thursday night against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Wiggins was listed as questionable Wednesday with an illness, and his absence leaves the Ravens without one of their starting cornerbacks on a night they'll also be without injured quarterbacks Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley.
Jackson (thumb) and Huntley (toe) both went on injured reserve Thursday. That was no surprise, and Baltimore signed Austin Reed to the 53-man roster to back up quarterback Joe Fagnano against the Jaguars. The Ravens also promoted Jake Moody from the practice squad to replace injured kicker Tyler Loop.
Also inactive for Baltimore are wide receiver Elijah Sarratt, safety Jaylinn Hawkins, guard Emery Jones, tackle Aeneas Peebles and quarterback Kedon Slovis.
Inactive for Jacksonville are wide receiver CJ Williams, cornerback Alijah Huzzie, safety Cam’Ron Silmon-Craig and defensive end Wesley Williams.
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Buffalo Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid (86) makes a catch against Baltimore Ravens cornerback Nate Wiggins (2) in the first half during an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Salon, one of the early internet's most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut down after 31 years of publication. “It has been an extraordinary privilege,” the outlet said in a farewell note.
The announcement, seen as a surprise, cited the fact that “the business realities of independent digital journalism have changed profoundly over the years.” It did not immediately indicate what would become of its employees, though some reported they had lost their jobs. A spokesperson for the outlet said 19 full-time employees had been affected, as well as a handful of private contractors.
“Over three decades, Salon has brought together politics, culture, criticism and ideas in a way that was distinctly our own,” the unsigned farewell note said. “Our journalism examined power and politics, questioned assumptions, surfaced stories that deserved attention and made room for perspectives that were too often overlooked. Our writers and editors helped shape conversations about the forces changing our lives.”
Salon began its life in the mid-1990s, barely three years after the internet itself went mainstream and a time when the “World Wide Web” was still written out in that fashion. It launched a decade before the newspaper and print magazine markets imploded — and a decade, too, before the rise of social media fragmented the journalism world.
As its name suggested, Salon was initially styled as an online magazine and meeting place, a site where more provocative opinions and stories that might not be at home in daily newspapers or even then-dominant newsweeklies like Time or Newsweek could surface and generate discussion. It quickly became a place where writers wanted their work to appear.
“The timing was right — readers were tired of bland, market-tested media products, and the internet allowed us to launch something original, something with a strong voice,” founder David Talbot said on the outlet’s five-year anniversary in 2000.
It drew a cadre of high-profile writers and people who would become famous, including Jake Tapper and Glenn Greenwald. Two of its editors-in-chief, Talbot and Joan Walsh, went on to become prominent progressive political voices as well.
As the internet grew, so did Salon's competition. Slate emerged the following year, and soon after, online magazines became the order of the day. Eventually, older print publications like The Atlantic began putting more content online and the marketplace of online ideas grew. Salon used Princess Diana's death in 1997 to go beyond its culture-and-criticism roots and wade into breaking-news coverage.
Salon told The Associated Press that it had no immediate plans to take down its online archives, which include three decades of stories from across the world and across topics and genres.
In its statement, Salon also made a point of thanking its readers.
“You came to Salon for the journalism, the dialogue, the essays, the criticism, the unexpected discoveries and the sense that there was a place on the internet where ideas mattered,” it said. “You read, shared, challenged, subscribed, wrote to us and kept coming back. Your engagement made Salon a publication and a community, and it gave our work meaning. We are so grateful for the time you spent with us.”
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Noveck reported from New York.
The home page of Salon.com is displayed on a computer screen in New York on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
