Layoffs at the AP news agency

However, the agency's management has not made any official statements about the dismissals. However, it had been informed by its members of 38 dismissals of managers, reporters, editors and photographers, the News Media Guild, which organizes around 1,300 AP employees in the USA, said according to SDA. AP spokesman Paul Colford did not want to comment on the details. He referred to announcements made in the previous year, according to which personnel expenses were to be reduced by ten percent in the current year.
Over the course of the year, around one hundred AP employees left the company voluntarily. AP is supported by around 1,500 daily newspapers in the USA and has a total of around 4,000 employees.