ap

Richard Sambrook:

This ought to be a great time for the agencies as costs force news organisations to cut their own international news operations they should be more dependant on AP and Reuters. But it seems CNN are drawing a line on agency costs and making the strategic moved to produce and exploit their own material more.

They also announced "CNN Share" and internal operation to move their own amaterial around the CNN operation more effectively. News Corporation recently announced something similar.

(Investing in original and distinctive journalism and exploiting your own material across programmes and platforms better. The BBC once had a News Director who argued for both those things about 7 years ago. Who was that guy?)

External link

Robin Wauters:

Publish2 is taking a swing at the newswire mammoth – they un-lovingly call it an inefficient monopoly – by launching a platform that allows newspaper publishers and other media organizations tap the vast amount of quality content already available for free on the Web (we don’t mean to brag, but TechCrunch was one of the examples cited by the startup on stage).

The startup realizes that the only way to disrupt the monster co-op is by offering a completely scalable substitute. Here’s basically what the company hopes the Publish2 News Exchange will do to the AP: ‘Craigslist it’.

As in, kill the AP’s main income stream by offering an open, efficient alternative.

Will be interesting to watch, but I think there are some fundamental flaws in the assumptions underpinning this idea.

External link

CNN drops AP

Publish2 Wants To Disrupt The Associated Press With An Online News Exchange