"Journalists and photographers at the Associated Press are staging a three-day byline strike and refusing to use personal equipment to perform their job duties to protest the company's proposals as the News Media Guild negotiates a new contract with the news agency," reports the NPPA . "The News Media Guild says that AP's proposals would threaten job security, raise medical costs, and freeze workers' wages. The guild represents 1,400 editorial, technology, and support staff at AP."

Read more about the strike and its implications in this NPPA brief .