AP editor digs in on Emily Wilder’s ‘clear bias’

Based on the AP’s explanations, it found Wilder biased after working with her for just 16 days. In an interview last week, Wilder said she was eager to comply with the company’s hardcore newsgathering rules. In response to feedback from editors, she said, she removed “Black Lives Matter” from her Twitter bio. (She restored it after her dismissal.) Carovillano told Stelter that the sort of bias demonstrated by Wilder could have affected the organization’s output: “If you’re a news associate in Phoenix, and there is a protest, an anti-Israel protest, an anti-Palestine protest, you’re probably the person that the AP is going to go and send out to cover that,” said Carovillano.