Jay Hancock: “Newspapers run AP as a collective, but the interests of AP and its members have never been further apart.”

There are no ads in Google News, "but Google News headlines are returned in Google SERPS, however, before the ‘organic’ results and high-priced Google AdWords ARE shown on such Google pages where newspaper copyright content is featured."

“If you want to point out why newspapers are failing look at: … huge overhead … overpaid management … slow pace of innovation … inability to sell online advertising … inability to evolve their one way medium into a two way medium … craigslist”