NEW YORK, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC, the premier professional services provider for private, middle-market businesses and high net-worth individuals, today announced it has acquired substantially all the assets of LGA, LLP (LGA), a Boston area accounting and business advisory firm.

The acquisition expands Citrin Cooperman’s deep New England presence, adding approximately 150 professionals. The combination brings together two organizations that share a commitment to investing in their people, building strong cultures and leveraging innovation in an increasingly technology focused, AI-enabled environment.

Under the leadership of Managing Partner John Geraci, LGA has built a strong reputation for its advisory-led approach, long-standing client relationships and commitment to serving lower middle-market and SMB clients.

“LGA has built an outstanding firm, and from our first conversations it was clear that John and his team share our belief that great firms succeed by investing in their people, embracing innovation, and earning clients’ trust every day,” said Alan Badey, CEO of Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC. “That shared mindset, combined with LGA’s exceptional reputation, makes this a natural fit. We’re excited to welcome the LGA team as we continue growing our presence across New England.”

“This combination represents an important step forward for our firm, our clients and our professionals,” said John Geraci, Managing Partner of LGA. “We’ve always believed that if you build the right environment, one grounded in trust, shared values, and balance, the results will follow. Citrin Cooperman shares that belief. Our longstanding relationships with Citrin Cooperman partners like Mark Henry, built over many years in the Boston market, reinforced for us that this was the right cultural and strategic fit. By joining Citrin Cooperman, we can preserve what makes LGA special while giving our team broader opportunities, additional support, and access to continued investments in innovation and AI-enabled capabilities.”

As is typical for firms that operate in alternative practice structures, the transaction will consist of Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC acquiring certain non attest assets and Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP acquiring certain attest assets of LGA.

About LGA

LGA, LLP is a New England based accounting and business advisory firm serving mid-market businesses, entrepreneurs, and families. Known for its people first culture and advisory led approach, LGA focuses on helping clients—and its own professionals—achieve what’s next through thoughtful strategy, trusted relationships, and modern tools.

About Citrin Cooperman

Citrin Cooperman is the nation’s premier accounting and advisory provider for private, middle-market businesses and high net-worth individuals. Consistently recognized as a great place to work and among the fastest growing top 20 U.S. firms, our more than 3,300 professionals focus on what counts to positively impact the lives of our people, clients, and communities. Our commitment to outstanding client service, professional excellence and deep industry expertise underpins a strategic growth approach that powers our dynamic, innovative culture.

Citrin Cooperman is an independent member firm of the Moore North America, Inc. (MNA) Association, which is itself a regional member of Moore Global Network Limited (MGNL), one of the world’s leading accountancy and advisory networks with over 37,000 professionals across 227 independent firms working in more than 114 countries. All the firms associated with MNA are independently owned and managed entities. Their membership in, or association with, MNA should not be construed as constituting or implying any partnership between them.

“Citrin Cooperman” is the brand under which Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC serve clients’ business needs in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm, provides attest services and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC provides business advisory and nonattest services. Learn more about Citrin Cooperman at www.citrincooperman.com.

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U.S. photojournalist wins prize after honorable mentions in 2025 and 2017

WASHINGTON, July 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) today announced Nicole Tung as the winner of the organization’s 12th annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Tung is a veteran photojournalist whose work documents communities impacted by war and its aftermath, particularly across the Middle East. The Anja Award was created in 2014 to honor the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning German Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed while reporting in Afghanistan.

Tung’s winning submission narrates the human cost of war across 13 years in Syria and Ukraine, demonstrating the impact of violence on communities under continual assault. Documenting extreme destruction, mounting loss of life, and growing refugee communities, her work details how conflict tears apart bodies, families and communities. Following Tung’s honorable mentions in 2025 and 2017, this year marks the third time Tung has been recognized through the Anja Awards – a record for a single photojournalist.

“What the IWMF continues to see in Nicole’s courageous work – and what the judges of the Anja Award recognized – is a tenacity to return, again and again, to the frontlines of suffering at the hands of the world’s most violent forces,” said Elisa Lees Muñoz, President of the IWMF. “Like Anja, Nicole shows us that staying with people who cannot escape war ensures their stories won’t disappear.” 

“I am honored, humbled, and proud to be this year’s award recipient; being able to follow in Anja’s footsteps means the world to me,” said Tung, from Istanbul. “Photojournalism requires passion, toil, and a deep faith that documentation will have impact, but it is never done alone. I am deeply appreciative of the IWMF for continuing to support the belief that all voices need to be heard.”

Alongside Tung, this year’s honorable mentions are Georgian photojournalist Daro Sulakauri, whose work combines investigative reporting and visual storytelling to examine social injustice and the lasting impact of conflict and occupation, and Viviana Peretti, a Bogotá-based Italian documentary photographer working across analogue and digital media. Sulakauri’s multi-year submission, “Chasing Shadows,” captures how hidden crimes in Georgia – including stolen babies and illegal adoptions – reverberate through identity, memory, and time. In “Limbo,” documented across more than a decade, Peretti demonstrates how forced disappearance in Colombia continues to wound families and nations. Like Tung, both women explore violence and absence – what was taken, what remains unresolved, and what must not be forgotten.

This year’s Anja Award jury was chaired by Whitney Johnson Latorre and included renowned industry editors and photojournalists Corinne Dufka, Brent Lewis, Enric Martí, Benjamin Snyder, Sandra Stevenson, and Bernadette Tuazon, who reviewed 133 submissions from 49 countries.

Following selection, the jury issued the following statement: “This year’s honorees document the unrelenting grief of violence both on the frontlines and in the ensuing decades. Their work affirms that neither war nor time can, or should, erase a story. Like Anja, the work of Nicole, Daro, and Viviana is not extractive or episodic – each journalist confronts unbearable realities with courage, building trust with local communities and telling stories with nuance, depth, and grace. We congratulate these women for their formidable work bearing witness under often extreme circumstances.”

Anja Niedringhaus was a recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2005. The Anja Award winner’s $20,000 prize is made possible by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Honorees’ images and captions, biographies, and headshots are available for media use with proper attribution; to inquire further, please contact Charlotte Fox (cfox@iwmf.org).

Courage in Photojournalism Award Winner

Photojournalist Nicole Tung is an American citizen born and raised in Hong Kong. She graduated from New York University with a double major in journalism and history.

Based in Istanbul, Turkey, Tung’s work often explores those most affected by conflict and the consequences of war across Asia and the Middle East. After covering the conflicts in Libya and Syria extensively from 2011, in 2014, she documented the lives of Native American war veterans in the United States, as well as former child soldiers in the DR Congo, the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the refugee crisis in Europe.

Tung currently freelances for international publications and NGOs, primarily covering the Middle East. She has reported for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper’s Magazine, NPR, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, Vogue Magazine, The Sunday Times, and many other outlets. Tung has received awards and recognition from The Carmignac Foundation, The International Women’s Media Foundation, ONA, Pictures of the Year International, Visa Pour l’Image, and more.

She was a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Breaking News Photography as part of a team for her work in Ukraine for The New York Times.

Instagram: @nicoletung

Courage in Photojournalism Award Honorable Mentions

Daro Sulakauri is a photojournalist and visual artist whose work explores the complex social and political realities of the Caucasus region. A graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, where she studied through the John & Marie Phillips Scholarship and the ICP Director’s Fund, she gained early recognition for her documentation of Chechen refugees in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, receiving the Young Photographers in the Caucasus Award from Magnum Photos.

Sulakauri’s work focuses on underreported and often taboo social and human rights issues, including mineworkers, ethnic minorities, early marriage in Georgia – which contributed to public awareness and legal reform – and the country’s ongoing stolen babies investigation, which has documented illegal adoption schemes. Her work has been recognized with the EU Prize for Journalism, LensCulture Visual Storytelling Award, Françoise Demulder Grant (Visa pour l’Image), Alexia Foundation Award of Excellence, Hansel Mieth Prize, and by Zeit Magazine. She is a Catchlight Global Fellow and the first Georgian TED Fellow.

Sulakauri is the creator of shifting-borders.com, a trilingual multimedia platform documenting life along South Ossetia’s occupation line through photography, video, maps, and personal testimony. Her work includes field visits along the occupation line, often accompanying residents on crossings toward the Russian-occupied territory. It has been published in The New York Times, Reuters, National Geographic, Zeit Magazine, and Stern Crime, among others.

Instagram: @darosulakauri

Viviana Peretti is an Italian photographer who covers marginalized communities and human rights violations. In 2000, she graduated with a degree in literature from the University of Rome and completed a master’s degree in journalism in Colombia. In 2010, Peretti completed the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography in New York while reporting for The New York Times.

In 2013, Peretti was an Artist-in-Residence at L’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) in Arles, France. In 2014, she was named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards in the Arts & Culture category and received an American Photography 30 award. In 2015, Peretti was a Camargo Foundation Fellow in France and in 2017, was a Bogliasco Center Fellow in Italy. In 2021, Peretti was an E.CO Residency Fellow at Baudó in Colombia. In 2022, Peretti received an Honorable Mention from the World Press Photo Foundation and, two years later, was a finalist for The Aftermath Project with her project Limbo. In 2024, Limbo won the Women Photograph Grant and the Italian Council 13.

Peretti’s work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, the MACRO Museum, the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, and the Centre of Memory, Peace and Reconciliation, among other sites.

Peretti’s photographs have been published by international media outlets including The New York Times, Newsweek, BBC, CNN, Vice, and Granta.

Instagram: @vivianaperetti and @vivianaperetti_analogue

About the International Women’s Media Foundation

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global organization built to serve the holistic needs of women and nonbinary journalists. We are a bold and inclusive organization that supports journalists where they are with awards, reporting opportunities, fellowships, grants, safety training, and emergency aid. As one of the largest supporters of women-produced journalism, our transformative work strengthens equal opportunity and press freedom worldwide. Follow the IWMF on X/Twitter at @IWMF, on Facebook at @IWMFPage, on Instagram at @TheIWMF and on TikTok at @theiwmf.

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Powerful single frame and rack mount systems and new AI and automation software upgrades for IBM Z and LinuxONE 5 help enterprises deploy workloads with more flexibility

ARMONK, N.Y., July 7, 2026 /CNW/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announces new IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 configurations, marking the first time IBM is offering rack mount alongside single frame systems across its full Z and LinuxONE portfolio. The expanded IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 portfolios now offer a wide range of deployment options, engineered with the same flagship performance, security, and ecosystem standards. New single frame and rack mount options provide additional ways for organizations to position their infrastructure where it fits best for their business needs, helping support flexibility and operational efficiency.

Organizations processing highly sensitive workloads at scale are facing record-low data center vacancy and rental rates exceeding $400 per kW/month, according to CBRE’s 2026 Global Data Center Trend Report.1 At the same time, they need infrastructure that can optimize their data center footprint while prioritizing the resilience required for their core applications. Enterprises can use IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 rack mount and single frame systems to address these challenges, optimizing their data center real estate to meet today’s realities. 

“The number of mission-critical workloads is rising at an incredible pace, forcing organizations to make tough decisions about performance, AI integration, and infrastructure footprint,” said Tom McPherson, General Manager, IBM Z and LinuxONE. “With these new IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE systems, we’re making it easier to run workloads where they make the most sense, while opening the door for a wider range of organizations to benefit from these technologies for the first time.”

New Systems Built for Data Center Flexibility
The new IBM z17 and IBM LinuxONE 5 configurations support up to 82 cores and 18 TB of memory across two processor drawers, representing about a 20% increase in core count and 12% increase in memory capacity. Single processor capacity of IBM z17 ME2 provides full speed IBM z/OS configurations including 10% greater throughput per core than IBM z16 A02 with some variation based on workload and configuration.2

Clients have the flexibility to co-locate IBM and non-IBM equipment to achieve the best fit-for-purpose installation in their data center. Each system is designed to help organizations reclaim space, improve energy efficiency, and integrate seamlessly into existing environments:

IBM z17 single frame is a fully packaged solution in an IBM rack and intelligent power distribution units (iPDUs), delivered as a complete enclosed unit ready to deploy, now with the added flexibility for clients to co-locate other technologies within the frame.IBM z17 rack mount allows clients to install IBM Z components directly into their own industry-standard rack, with built-in flexibility for co-location with other technologies.IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 is the scalable, multi-drawer LinuxONE system for high-density workloads, with on-chip AI acceleration, confidential computing, and post- quantum cryptography available in both single frame and rack mount configurations.IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 rack mount and Express offerings deliver enterprise-grade Linux, confidential computing, and on-chip AI acceleration in a compact 18U configuration. Designed for organizations supporting a smaller set of workloads, the offering provides a cost-efficient entry point that can scale as business grows, while prioritizing security, resiliency, and performance.

As with the rest of the IBM z17 and LinuxONE 5 portfolio announced last year, the single frame and rack mount systems deliver advanced multi-model AI inferencing through the IBM Telum® II processor, Red Hat OpenShift AI and the IBM Spyre™ Accelerator to deliver in-transaction predictive AI and generative AI.

Maximizing Business Value at the Core
Building on the flexibility of IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE systems, IBM is announcing new software and management capabilities designed to help clients simplify infrastructure operations, reduce the skills required to run the platform, and get more value from the workloads already running their business.

IBM Infrastructure Management for Z and LinuxONE brings together provisioning, configuration, and operations together. Enterprises can now leverage Terraform and widely adopted Infrastructure-as-Code that are engineered to automate infrastructure deployments, and orchestrate configurations in a unified user interface with a simple visual I/O topology and configuration while addressing the number of specialists required.IBM COBOL Elevate for z/OS is built to simplify modernization and optimize performance for COBOL applications running on IBM z17, helping clients get more value from the applications they depend on with no rewrites or specialized skills required, with availability beginning September 18.Post-quantum cryptography security is now standard on z17 and LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 systems, leveraging post-quantum cryptography, confidential computing, and enterprise-wide secrets management.New IBM Crypto Discovery & Inventory capabilities are engineered to simplify security operations by giving security teams a consolidated view of their cryptographic posture across the enterprise, helping them prepare for post-quantum standards with end-to-end visibility.

“With the emergence of generative AI methods, we need the highest levels of performance, efficiency, resiliency and security to safely hold, and process the sensitive datasets,” said Dr. Owain Kenway, Head of Research and Development (Platform Technologies) in ARC at University College London. “The new IBM LinuxONE 5 single frame, rack mount, and Express models enable organizations like us to access advanced technologies at cost-effective prices, and help our academic teams deliver outstanding research.”

Availability

The new z17 single frame and rack mount configurations, IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5, and IBM LinuxONE 5 Express will all be generally available August 12, 2026. IBM Infrastructure Management for IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE will be generally available August 14, 2026. IBM COBOL Elevate for z/OS will be generally available September 18, 2026. For more information, visit https://www.ibm.com/products/z17 and https://www.ibm.com/products/linuxone-5.

Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.

Disclaimer:

CBRE’s 2026 Global Data Center Trend Report.Based on internal measurements. Results may vary by customer based on
individual workload, configuration and software levels. Visit LSPR website for more details at: www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-z-large-systems-performance-reference

About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

Additional Sources

New z17 capabilities blogNew LinuxONE capabilities blogSecurity blogz17 Ecosystem & Skills blog

Media contacts: 

Marshall Hampson
IBM Infrastructure Communications
Marshall.hampson@ibm.com

Aishwerya Paul
IBM Infrastructure Communications
Aish.Paul@ibm.com

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