AP will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history

The Associated Press (AP), one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organisations, said on Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its US-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. 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.