AP says it will offer buyouts, part of pivot from newspaper journalism

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News Source : Associated Press

News Summary

  • The News Media Guild, the union that represents AP journalists, said more than 120 of the staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday.
  • The number of AP journalists who will lose jobs is murky, in part intentionally.
  • The AP does not say how many journalists it employs, though it has a large international presence as well as its U.S. staff.
  • Over the past four years, the AP’s revenue from newspapers has declined by 25%.
  • Gannett and McClatchy, two of the largest traditional newspaper publishers, dropped AP in 2024.
The Associated Press said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained th [+5137 chars]

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