AP Business Journalist Slams Newsroom Leadership
Management became 'negative and mean-spirited'
Janna Herron, who worked for the AP for more than five years, attacked the organization's leadership in a resignation email to her colleagues, saying that the wire service's business department, which was full of “wonderful editors and teachers” when she started, “is not the department [she is leaving] today.”
“I’m the 56th person to leave since the newsroom’s management style turned negative and mean-spirited three years ago. And I’m sure I’m not the last. I just couldn’t do it anymore,” she wrote in the letter, published on Poynter.
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