The Associated Press is getting rid of journalists and pivoting a bit more toward AI. It offered 120 journalists a buyout offer on Monday and it wants to cut 5% globally. [AP] The AP ignored a requ…
  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    11 days ago

    She is Senior VP - her job is to maximize profits, not report factual information correctly.

    • zogwarg@awful.systemsEnglish
      8·
      11 days ago

      🤓☝️ technically AP is a non-profit providing a (worldwide) public utility service. (On paper and mostly in practice it’s a journalist co-op). Her Job is to report factual information correctly, that’s (at least historically) the whole selling point of wire services.

      Looking at her wiki page:

      […] spent two years at The Tampa Tribune before joining the Associated Press (AP) in 2007 as a video producer. She was the AP’s first multimedia political journalist. Pace covered the 2008 presidential election and began covering the White House […]

      Definitely a journalist by training, given her career journey, it makes sense that she champions video content. But still, amongst the six senior VPs at AP, she has title the “Executive Editor”, arguably the most “Journalist” title of all of them. (Chief Technology Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, General Counsel/Corporate Secretary, Executive Editor, Chief Financial Officer, Chief People Officer)