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年由五家纽约报纸共同创立,旨在分摊报道美墨战争的成本以来,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方案,作为其向视觉新闻转型并开发新收入来源的一部分。