Editor & Publisher: CNN Courts Newspapers With New Wire Service
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 11:16
"CNN is courting newspapers — and possibly competing with The Associated Press — with a new wire service the cable network plans to launch soon, with plans for an all-expenses-paid, three-day summit in December to show off its news gathering capabilities."
Editor & Publisher: Newspapers in Northeast Pursue a Content-Sharing ‘Consortium’
Saturday, 1 November 2008, 10:26
"Top executives and editors from several major dailies in the Northeast, dissatisfied with The Associated Press, met recently to discuss the formation of a content-sharing agreement that in several cases would serve in place of their AP agreements, E&P has learned from top executives at three of the papers."
ReadWriteWeb: AP: The Modern Newsroom Looks Like a Little RSS Reader
Monday, 29 September 2008, 21:29
"Today the Associated Press announced that more than 500 newspapers are using their service called the AP Member Marketplace. … The AP Marketplace interface looks like a sophisticated, multi-media RSS reader but with limited sources. Publishers set up a workflow that lets editors send selected media items directly from the reader out onto the paper's website."
New York Times: Bits: How to Save Local Newspapers: Cellphones
Sunday, 27 July 2008, 06:39
"Verve Wireless’s mission is to save the local paper by making it mobile. It provides publishers with the technology to create mobile Web sites, so readers can read the paper on their cell phones."
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 13:41
Comments
"If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?"
Tuesday, 3 June 2008, 13:34
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"the Associated Press revealed today that it sent a team of ethnographers around the world to see if young folks consume news differently on their laptops and iPhones than their parents did in print and on TV. And, by golly, they do."
Saturday, 12 April 2008, 07:49
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"The Associated Press has launched a new syndication feature for members of its Online Video Network (OVN), enabling uploaded video to be shared with the rest of the network."
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 09:05
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Thursday, 13 March 2008, 17:00
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"This site displays the Associated Press U.S. National, Sports, Business, Technology and "Strange" news stories on top of Google Maps. The city/state from each news story is translated to a latitude/longitude point [and] then plotted on the map."
Thursday, 13 March 2008, 16:59
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Amy Gahran points out some impressive news maps and calls for more examples.
Thursday, 22 November 2007, 20:00
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"A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for 19 months in Iraq are false or meaningless, according to an intensive AP investigation of the case made public Wednesday."
Friday, 9 November 2007, 16:09
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"Australian cricket authorities came under fire on Friday for preventing some news organisations from covering the first test match against Sri Lanka, as a boycott of the event by international news groups continued."
Friday, 2 November 2007, 17:06
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"Do we need professional reporters and editors? Of course. Do we need them to work for the same corporations who controlled and profited from news for 200 years? No."
Friday, 2 November 2007, 09:38
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Rafat Ali: "[AP] CEO Tom Curley …came out swinging against the very partners it syndicates a lot to: the online portals. His speech, posted online, is emblematic of the schizophrenic state of the news media industry: hope and despair all wrapped into a
