Associated Press Layoffs Rumored to Begin Today

Last month it was rumored that the Associated Press may need to make hundreds of layoffs before the year's end. Now a tipster tells Gawker.com that some of those layoffs could be coming down today.

The source reveals that the word amongst AP union members is that today may be the day that "70 or 80" get laid off. While rumors indicate that the layoffs will be spread across the company nationally, New York staffers have supposedly been summoned to an "important meeting" this afternoon.

In the day and age where newspapers are cutting more staff by the day and relying more and more upon the AP and its writers to fill their pages and websites, cuts like these are indicative of just how bad of shape the print industry is in.

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