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AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper-focused history

The Associated Press said Monday it is offering buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company since the mid-1800s. The News Media Guild, the union that represents AP journalists, said more than 120 of the staff members it represents received buyout offers on Monday. The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence, to cope with the ...

The pros and cons of taking on projects yourself

When something in the house stops working or needs to be replaced, the first impulse of many people is to call a contractor or comparison shop online. Others have the mindset, skills, resources or time to handle it themselves. Do-it-yourselfers often are regarded as determined and ...

GM leads nation in 1st-quarter auto sales

Staff report Despite a drop of nearly 10 percentage points from the previous year, General Motors leads the nation in auto sales. GM sales in the first quarter of 2026 totaled 626,429 vehicles, the company reported this week in its news release. Chevrolet’s Silverado line accounted for ...

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI usage

The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line. Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without ...

Jobless rate in Ohio dips down to 4.3%

Staff report Ohio’s unemployment rate stood at 4.3% in January, down from 4.4% in December, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services reported Friday. Ohio’s nonagricultural wage and salary employment increased 16,300 over the month, from a revised 5,663,400 in December to 5,679,700 in January. The number of workers unemployed in Ohio in January was 255,000, down from 258,000 in December. The number of unemployed has decreased by 34,000 in the past 12 months from 289,000. The January unemployment rate for Ohio decreased 0.5 percentage points from 4.8% in January ...