Associated Press reviews

Unsustainable workloads, stress, and hours. Constantly shifting (and sometimes conflicting) company strategies and priorities. Some ineffective and downright incompetent managers and staff manage to survive and thrive. Reliability and competence is often punished with less desirable hours and more work. Want to move up? You will probably have to move cities: a lot.

Sadly, the AP has struggled financially for about 10 years and the unfortunate result is that it has basically gutted many of its news bureaus, especially overseas. So it's not only hard to get a job there, once you are in a job, it is hard to advance or even transfer to another location. This is especially true in its overseas operations, which at one time were its flagship. The journalism business has long receded from its heyday of "your ticket around the world" but at this point AP employees are lucky to get a ticket home, let alone benefits like 401(k) or paying for children's education overseas.