The AP Layoffs, From Bismarck to Beijing
We've been updating our AP Layoffs List for three days with tips about layoffs in AP bureaus around the world. Here, we've organized and mapped them for you. View the national and global media carnage, below.
[Note: All info is based on tips and is not verified by the AP. In some cases it's impossible to tell whether multiple tips refer to the same people, but we've synthesized as much as possible.]
New York City
Reported layoffs: One business editor, one business reporter, five multimedia staffers, one sports editor, several writers on the national desk.
Upstate New York
One correspondent and one editorial assistant reportedly gone.
Boston
Four staffers reportedly laid off.
Washington, DC
Reported layoffs: One business reporter, one research staffer, an "enterprise team" reporter (Rita Beamish), an assignment desk staffer, three broadcast staffers.
Pittsburgh
Reported layoffs: One business reporter.
Dallas
One reported layoff.
Jacksonville
Longtime AP reporter Ron Word reportedly laid off and bureau closing. [I remember Ron Word's byline from forever when I was growing up near there, very sad. Shout out to Ron Word!]
Kentucky
Reported layoffs: One news editor in Louisville, one editorial assistant, one state capitol reporter.
Central Wisconsin
One reporter laid off and bureau reportedly closed.
Oklahoma
News editing duties reportedly outsourced to Little Rock.
Michigan
Reported layoffs: One state government reporter, the only Grand Rapids correspondent (bureau reportedly closing), and one editorial assistant.
Dayton, OH
Reported layoffs: One correspondent and one editorial assistant, which means the entire bureau.
Berkeley, CA
One correspondent reportedly laid off and bureau closing.
Roanoke, VA
The only correspondent reportedly laid off.
Bismarck, ND
Only correspondent reportedly laid off.
Santa Fe, NM
One of two correspondents reportedly laid off.
National Staffers
Reported layoffs: A "high percentage" of all editorial assistants across the country, a national photo editor, as many as eight photographers, the AP liaison/executive director of the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME), a national writer, an investigative reporter/ computer-assisted reporting guru (Pulitzer winner Frank Bass),
San Juan/ Caribbean Bureau
Nine staffers reportedly laid off and bureau slated to close.
The Middle East
Reported layoffs: At least three newspeople. One reporter in Jerusalem.
Vietnam
One photographer reportedly laid off.
Beijing
Reported layoffs: One reporter and one other staffer.
