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Associated Press

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If you're going to be a journalist anywhere, choose AP - Reporter Associated Press Employee Review

3.0
Feb 17, 2015
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Pros

Colleagues and teammates around the world, co-workers who are inspired to do great work. This isn't a great time to get into journalism, but if you want to make a difference, and see your work in papers and on websites across the state (or nation), there's no better place than AP.

Cons

For a communications company, its management is terrible at internal communication. The execs probably have a long-term plan but it seems the employees are the last to learn it. Every bureau is painfully understaffed but management fails to explain, even when asked directly at all-hands meetings, what its plan is to provide and distribute more resources.

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Cons

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