On November 4, 2009
AP: We Have Good News, Too
After my post earlier today about the Tribune Co.’s decision to go “AP Free” next week, a journalist friend emailed me, “Oh man, if AP were ever to fail …I fear the worst is yet to come …” Later on, the AP’s Director of Media Relations, Paul Colford, contacted me to share some more encouraging news about the wire service. It turns out that, according to Editor & Publisher, 50 newspapers among the 130 or so who have indicated they intended to cancel the service during the past two years have rescinded those notices in recent months. Although the AP does not routinely release information about business decisions by its member papers, these reportedly include the New York Daily News…
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