Nieman Lab·2026-04-06

The AP is offering buyouts in a pivot away from newspapers

For 180 years, ever since it was founded by five New York newspapers in 1846 to help share the costs of reporting on the Mexican-American war, newspapers have been a part of the Associated Press business. Today, it announced that s changing, and has offered buyouts to an unspecified number of journalists based in the U.S. as part of a shift toward visual journalism and developing new revenue sourc

180年来,自1846年由五家纽约报纸为分摊美墨战争报道成本而共同创立以来,报纸一直是美联社业务的重要组成部分。如今,美联社宣布这一局面正在改变,并已向美国境内数量不详的记者提供了买断计划,此举旨在向视觉新闻转型并开发新的收入来源。

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