AP CUTS LOCAL NEWS TO CHASE THE ALGORITHM
The Associated Press is restructuring away from hyper-local print coverage and toward video and national topics.
- Revenue from that cohort has declined 25% over the past few years, while revenue from tech companies has grown roughly 200%, she noted.
The Associated Press, that 180-year-old institution of sober facts and sensible shoes, is doing what every modern media company eventually does after discovering that local print revenue has fallen 25% and tech money has risen roughly 200%: it is bravely reinventing itself by asking for volunteers before possibly laying off employees, which is corporate America’s way of saying “we value your contribution” in a tone normally reserved for a lifeboat drill. The AP says it’s not shrinking, just “coming from different places,” which is a lovely spin for an operation that has already cut 8% of staff in 2024 and now wants to get leaner while remaining “profitable,” “stable,” and somehow still dependent on a local news ecosystem it helps keep on life support. Meanwhile, the old newspaper customers are gone, the tech giants are happily licensing the goods, video is king, visuals are king, national topics are king, and local reporting remains the indispensable thing everybody wants preserved by somebody else.
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