AP Reporters Go On ‘Byline-Strike’

Posted by | January 30, 2014 22:04 | Filed under: Media/Show Business Top Stories


For 24 hours, most Associated Press reporters refused to use their bylines to protest their company’s health care policies.

“The intent of the byline boycott is to tell AP managers that staffers support their bargainers at the table and oppose AP’s proposals that include health care that would shift $10 million in costs to Guild-covered staffers; the ability to transfer staffers anywhere at anytime; and changes to expenses that could cost some staffers thousands of dollars,” Guild President Martha Waggoner said in a statement.

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