Associated Press to Cut 8% of Staff in Layoffs, Buyouts
Less than half of those affected are in the newsroom
The Associated Press is cutting 8% of its workforce, with some staffers offered voluntary buyouts as cuts in media hit the longstanding news agency. Less than half of the staff reductions are impacting the news division, according to an internal memo obtained by TheWrap.
The news agency is “making some difficult changes so we can invest more fully in our future,” AP president Daisy Veerasingham said in the memo.
“We all know this is a time of transformation in the media sector. Our customers – both who they are and what they need from us – are changing rapidly. This is why we’ve focused on delivering a digital-first news report. We now need to accelerate on this path,” she added.
https://www.thewrap.com/associated-press-layoffs/
About 20% of Americans regularly get their news from influencers on social media, report says
About one in five Americans – and a virtually identical share of Republicans and Democrats – regularly get their news from digital influencers who are more likely to be found on the social media platform X, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Research Center.
The findings, drawn from a survey of more than 10,000 U.S. adults and an analysis of social media posts posted this summer by influencers, provide an indication of how Americans consumed the news during the height of the U.S. presidential campaign that President-elect Donald Trump ultimately won.
https://apnews.com/article/influencers-election-trump-harris-news-eacd42bce73d6e11cbc760caf28c993a