Editors React To AP Rate Cut: ‘A Good Starting Point’ Or ‘This Changes Nothing’
The Associated Press’ decision to revise its controversial member pricing plan received a mixed reaction from editors at newspapers that hav… Read more »
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Interview: AP Execs Explain Strategic Change — And What It Might Cost The Co-Op And Its Members
Soon after the Associated Press announced its plans to reverse course on newspaper rate increases and to review its structure, I spoke separ… Read more »
AP’s Controversial Rate Plan: History In Links
Today, the Associated Press announced plans to revisit its controversial rate plan and possibly to overhaul ts membership structure. In Octo… Read more »
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AP Backs Down On Controversial Rate Plan: Cuts Rates, Gives Members All AP Text, Halts ’09 Increases
In a major turnabout, the Associated Press has just reversed course on its controversial rate plan following a board meeting today. The co-o… Read more »
Tribune Considers Dropping AP Wire Service Within Two Years
By David Kaplan
The Tribune Company is the latest newspaper publisher to give the Associated Press notice that it is considering dropping its services in tw… Read more »
AP Tells Staff Debt Free, Diversified Revenue Streams But Cash Flow Affected, Hiring Freeze
The Associated Press, source of so much of today’s financial news, is doing a little in-house education on its own finances. In a memo to st… Read more »
Editors On Singleton: Sure, We’re Concerned About Costs — But We’re The Ones Getting Whipped
By David Kaplan
William Dean Singleton, CEO of Denver-based publisher MediaNews Group and chairman of the AP board, shared a few thoughts with me in an inte… Read more »
AP Signs Up 500 Papers For Online News Sharing Service
By David Kaplan
While the Associated Press has been trying to beat back threats to defect by member newspapers over the fee structure being implemented next… Read more »
AP Asks More Publishers To Re-Sell Its Content, 50/50 Rev Share
Associated Press is to begin sharing advertising and syndication revenue with more of its subscribers, through an extension of a program tha… Read more »
Interview: Tom Brettingen, Chief Revenue Officer, AP: ‘Returning $20 Million To The Industry’
As we’ve been reporting here, in the weeks since the Associated Press began notifying papers about the new rate plans that go into effect Ja… Read more »
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AP Challenges Grow As Cost-Cutting Papers Look For Line Items To Slash
The Associated Press, a co-operative started by newspapers to share costs and news, has been getting cancellation notices from papers as lar… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: AP; McClatchy; Media General
By David Kaplan
– AP: As expected, some newspapers are pulling out following the much-discussed rate changes for the co-op. At the same time, even papers g… Read more »
AP Settles Moreover, Verisign Copyright Suit; Terms Undisclosed
The headline pretty much says it all … the Associated Press has ended its legal fight with Moreover Technologies and its parent VeriSign (… Read more »
Associated Press Invests in Mobile News Startup Verve Wireless
By Rafat Ali
A rare strategic investment from Associated Press: it has invested in mobile news services start up Verve Wireless. The first round of $3 mi… Read more »
AP At The Crossroads: Newspapers Feel ‘Betrayed’ By Online Focus
By David Kaplan
The Associated Press began some diplomatic work this week as it started presenting details of its new pricing model to its U.S. newspaper me… Read more »
Drudge Retort’s Retort To AP: Personal Issue Resolved But ‘Larger Conflict’ Remains
Rogers Cadenhead, the tech author who runs the Drudge Retort, agrees with the Associated Press that the legal dispute that started when the… Read more »
AP Wants Change In Blog Excerpting, Just Not Sure What
By Joseph Weisenthal
The AP is spoiling for a fight it can’t win. It started last week when the news organization took exception with the linking and excerpting… Read more »
AP Launches Mobile Service
By James Quintana Pearce
Associated Press has launched its mobile site, foreshadowed a couple of weeks ago. The site is available at http://www.apnews.com on a handset, or… Read more »
Newspaper Roundup: AP Members Grouse; McClatchy Offers Buyouts; Toronto Star Lays Off Internet Staff
By David Kaplan
– AP: Newspaper editors let loose a barrage of criticism for the new Associated Press rate structure after an appearance by AP President an… Read more »
State Of AP: Singleton: Less Than 25 Percent Of 2009 Revs From Member Newspapers; No New Century Net
For a sense of the dramatic shift at the Associated Press in the digital age, consider this: by 2009, less than 25 percent of Associated Pre… Read more »
AP Building An Ad-Subsidized Mobile Network For Local And National News
By Tricia Duryee
The Associated Press is testing a mobile initiative to deliver national and local news to smartphones as part of a push to find new digital… Read more »
AP’s Annual Meeting: iCopyright Deal; Zell, Murdoch Join Board; Mobile News Net; Discounts
The Associated Press held its annual meeting in Washington today and made some of its own news:
iCopyright: The AP is adding a significant… Read more »
AP Debuts Online Video Syndication; Strikes Distribution Deal For AnswersTV’s Health Channel
By David Kaplan
The Associated Press has created a new syndication feature for its Online Video Network, the video player and uploading service for its 1,80… Read more »
AP Consolidates Its Media Units; Brettingen, Seagrave and Cross Promoted
By Rafat Ali
The Associated Press is making some big changes in its structure, as it continues its retooling under Tom Curley: it is consolidating manage… Read more »
AP Overhauls Fee Structure; More Breaking News, But Editors Still Find Rates “Too High”
By David Kaplan
Continued protests from its members over higher rates failed to stop the AP’s board from finalizing the cooperative’s new fee structure, E&P… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: CBS Interactive; Disney Channel-Taiwan; MySpace, MTV And AP
– *CBS Interactive* gets official Grammy role: The digital arm of CBS (NYSE: CBS) has been named the official online partner of The Recordi… Read more »
AP Sues AHN Media For Copyright Infringement
By Rafat Ali
The Associated Press is following up on its threats to go after offending companies that copy or rewrite its stories, or use it “improperly”… Read more »
AP And MTV Collaborate With Student Journalists On Local Election Coverage
By David Kaplan
The Associated Press is expanding its citizen journalism reach, and attempting to build its brand among college students, by working with MT… Read more »
News Orgs Creating Formal Group To Fight Against Sports Leagues On Coverage Rights
By Rafat Ali
We’ve covered the clash of news organizations with the sports leagues on rights of covering the games, especially in online and mobile media… Read more »
Interview: Tom Curley, CEO, Associated Press; Portals, Local Content — ‘The Mother of all Battles’
By Joseph Weisenthal
In a speech last month, AP CEO Tom Curley declared that news is a growth industry and that it was high time to kick ‘despair’ to the curb.… Read more »
AP CEO Tom Curley Comes Out Firing Against Portals, Sort Of; Despairs But Asks Not To Despair
By Rafat Ali
Associated Press CEO Tom Curley was the honoree and keynoter at Thursday night’s annual Knight-Bagehot dinner in NYC, and he came out swingi… Read more »
AP Board Approves New Pricing Structure; Pay As You Go Included; Lower Revenues At AP As a Result
By Rafat Ali
The Associated Press’ board has approved a major overhaul of the way it prices and packages news for its member U.S. newspapers, and represe… Read more »
AP Sues Moreover and Verisign For Stories Copyright Infringement
By Rafat Ali
The Associated Press has sued Moreover Technologies (owned by VeriSign), asking a federal court to stop the two companies from accessing and… Read more »
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