"The Associated Press plans dozens of U.S. staff cuts as part of a broader restructuring away from hyper-local print coverage and toward video and national topics"

April 06, 2026 - 15:11 UTC

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SMDH. Increasingly, the voice of the free press is lost in local news.

I take exception to Axios, a right-leaning media outlet, reporting this news about the Associated Press.

It highlights the problem with the shifting weight of non-neutral “news” sources and actors in today’s attention economy.
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Because "pivot to video" worked so well for all the other platforms
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No one else is doing "hyperlocal print coverage". The state's biggest newspaper is relying on AP to cover the state house. When that's gone, there's nothing.
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Bingo.
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“Pivot to video” worked so well in the past.
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It will now since they've dumbed people down to constantly watching Youtube and Tiktks and never reading.
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a pivot to video? in 2026???
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Beat me to it!
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in this economy?
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Subscribe and "Like" us on Tik Tok and IG...🤮
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Conservatives have been buying up local publications and stations for decades, so we already know what the coverage is. Everyone loves a good after the fact, when the fight should have occurred long ago.
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1/ Truth is they haven't done "hyper-local print coverage" for at last 20 years. Most of it was local state "news watch" and "new minutes" lifted from first sentences of local newspapers. As those papers have folded, or gone behind paywalls, the local AP bureaus have consolidated. It's hard to...
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2/ find local stories in AP copy at all anymore. The state wires are filled with college sports, an occasional story of statewide interest, and nothing at state region oriented as they were in the past. They found statewide local coverage too expensive 30 years ago.
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Bye bye!
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Noooooo.
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Start with your White House reporter because she’s basically the administration’s stenographer.
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Who owns AP?
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It’s a not-for-profit cooperative, owned by its members (which are news organizations such as newspapers, though not all of them).
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"Following the lead of CBS, AP plans its own downward spiral."
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75% of people that share articles on social media didn't read the article.

There are innumerable statistics like that which show that the average person "gets their news" from predigested, melt-in-your-mouth social media posts.

Also, the average American reads *below* a 6th grade level.
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More AI slop news
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Ah yes the old pivot to video

Works great for everyone
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That’s an unfortunate decision on AP’s part. I like local print as do millions. There are enough videos on YouTub.
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💩
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Oh FFS.
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Yeesh. Classic death spiral.
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'Pivot to video' is like when you hear a show has been struggling with their ratings and is being moved to Friday evening.
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I just don't understand who they would be firing that wouldn't translate to video/national topics.

This just seems like a reason they're putting out, but not the actual reason.
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