So it looks like The AP is pivoting away from journalsim by offering buyout packages to it's journalists.

"According to the AP News Guild, the union representing AP staff, 120 people were offered buyouts. The union also said that the AP ignored a union request to bargain over artificial intelligence."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/the-ap-is-offering-buyouts-in-a-pivot-away-from-newspapers/

edit: added hashtags

#journalism #theAP

The AP is offering buyouts in a pivot away from newspapers

For 180 years, ever since it was founded by five New York newspapers in 1846 to help share the costs of reporting on the Mexican-American war, newspapers have been a part of the Associated Press' business. Today, it announced that's changing, and has offered buyouts to an unspecified number of jour…

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