Following Layoffs, AP Expands News Editor, Photo Editor Roles

After cutting 90 people from its news department this week, shuttering four bureaus, the Associated Press today announced that it had expanded the roles of six news editors and appointed four interim regional photo editors “as part of a restructuring of U.S. news management.”

The news editors who are taking on more regions include West Virginia news editor Brian Farkas, who is adding oversight of Virginia; Amanda Kell, the current news editor for Maryland and Delaware who is now taking on the Mid-Atlantic bureau in Washington, D.C.

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