The Federal Government will provide AAP with $5 million dollars.
UPDATE 10/5: AAP WILL receive federal funding in this week’s budget.
UPDATE 23/8: AAP has appointed three new female board members, and launched an arts desk, an environment desk and an agricultural desk thanks to philanthropic donations.
Jonty was the first female chair in AAP’s history. She was appointed to the role in August last year.
UPDATE 21/1/2022
The Guardian Australia’s Amanda Meade writes that Nine Entertainment has signed a two-year print and text deal with AAP. The new contract will see the wire agency service the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times, WAtoday and nine.com.au. It comes almost three years after Nine – along with co-majority shareholder News Corp – closed the newswire service before it was saved by a group of philanthropists.
The Guardian Australia’s Amanda Meade writes
In more sad news for journalism, the specialist agriculture and environment rounds at AAP will wind up later this year as their philanthropic funding comes to an end, the AAP CEO, Lisa Davies, has confirmed. Reporters Liv Casben and Tracy Ferrier will depart the wire service when their contracts end.
“Environment and agriculture are important parts of AAP’s core news coverage across the country,” Davies told Beast. “As a not-for-profit media outlet, we are grateful for philanthropic support and it will continue to play a crucial role in AAP’s future, including for specialist content and fact checking.”
Liv will probably end up back at the ABC, or The Guardian.