Members wore red at the company awards ceremony this week to show pride in our colleagues’ work. Do leaders share that pride? AP execs are undercutting our journalism while honoring the best of our journalists.
We call for a reinstatement of our expert photo and video producers.
While voters elsewhere have embraced a decidedly anti-establishment sentiment this year, New Hampshire Republican voters are poised to pick a familiar face, or at least name, over a fresh one on Tuesday. https://t.co/wte0LH144t
Today is my 30th anniversary at The Associated Press, which is pretty amazing considering I was hired for a four-month temp stint. (So 90th anniversary of my four-month gig?)
AP is planning on laying off 30 video and photo production staffers on August 21 so the company can build a new hub in India. Let’s be clear: Offshoring is not expansion.
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@AP has told some video and photo guild members in the U.S. that the last day for those affected by layoffs will be August 21.
Meanwhile the company is actively hiring for these same jobs in India.
AP wants to lay off 30 more U.S. journalists and move those roles to India.
That’s after laying off or buying out nearly 150 U.S. staffers over the past two years.
Heat as oppressive as British colonial rule is bearing down on the eastern U.S. heading into the long Fourth of July weekend, prompting some communities to cancel, postpone or otherwise alter their Independence Day plans. https://t.co/gtobYo1gOh