Over the years, the Associated Press has made a profile for itself by syndicating its news across thousands of newspapers both in the U.S. and abroad. Now as newspaper readers move to new platforms like tablets to consume their news content, the AP wants to make sure it is syndicating…

The Associated Press is launching its high-definition AP Entertainment news service as part a “multi-million” dollar upgrade that will make all its video news available in the HD format by the first half of 2012.

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The Associated Press and photo service Corbis Images are bring their respective trove of licensed pictures together as the two look for ways to reach each other’s customers. The “multi-year” deal, which will bring together over 10 million archived images, as well as new ones. The intent is to connect…

The Associated Press will be working with talent agency/marketing firm Madison Avenue Sports and Entertainment to develop content culled from the wire service’s library of audio, video and photography. Among the first plans to come out of the partnership, MadAve will create “episodic programming” using footage from the APs archive.

The Associated Press is promising to change one of the more frustrating aspects of being part of a news co-op for some, particularly in this age of ubiquitous online news. AP is promising “additional” credit through direct links when it picks up stories from other news outlets for use on…

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As more news services look to expand their audience in both consumers and clients, the Associated Press turning to a veteran marketing hand to help maintain its profile. Matt Cluney, a former marketing executive with American Express Co., will serve in a new role at the AP as director of…

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After six months of negotiations, the Associated Press has reached what it calls a “tentative” deal with the News Media Guild, which represents about 1,200 newsroom and technology employees of the wire service.

Former *ABC* News President David Westin is joining the Associated Press to manage the News Licensing Group, the wire service’s digital rights organization for news providers launching this summer. The News Licensing Group will oversee content and data from AP and more than 1,000 digital publications.

Both Mozilla and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) are putting Do Not Track “headers” in their new web browsers; of course, those headers are just signals that users send to websites telling them they don’t want to be tracked, and websites don’t actually have to obey that request. The big question then…

The Associated Press’ litigation over Shepard Fairey’s 2008 “Obama Hope” design, which was based on a photo by AP photographer Manny Garcia, appears to be drawing to a close. The wire service settled with the artist last year, but did not settle a claim against Obey Clothing, the retailer that…

The iconic “Obama Hope” image created by street artist Shepard Fairey has now spawned no less than five copyright conflicts. The Associated Press’ first sued dispute with Shepard Fairey landed in court in 2009, with the wire service saying Fairey broke copyright laws when he created the artwork, because it…

Associated Press Chief Revenue Officer Jane Seagrave is stepping down from her post and leaving the news wire to become publisher of the Vineyard Gazette, which is based in Martha’s Vineyard, the paper announced.

Updated with comments from AP. The Associated Press settled its copyright lawsuit against Shepard Fairey over his Obama “Hope” poster last month, but a related case against Obey Clothing, which sold clothing emblazoned with the same Fairey image, is headed to a jury trial in a New York federal court…

The Associated Press has come up with a way of recreating the bulky Sunday paper, with all those advertising inserts, for the mobile age. The news organization’s board just voted to begin testing a mobile version of the preprint circulars that newspapers insert in their weekend sections.