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CNN Wire Service Takes On AP, Luring AP's Disgruntled Newspaper Customers

New York Times | Tim Arango and Richard Perez Pena | Posted 12.01.2008 | Media


CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strain...

Associated Press To Cut 10 Percent Of Workforce In 2009: Report

Reuters | Robert MacMillan | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media


NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it cope...

AP: "Suddenly, It May Be Cool To Be American Again"

AP | WILLIAM J. KOLE | Posted 11.05.2008 | Style


VIENNA, Austria — She was a stranger, and she kissed me. Just for being an American. It happened on the bus on my way to work Wednesday morning...

Associated Press Offers Discounted Plan

New York Times | Richard Perez Pena | Posted 10.24.2008 | Media


The Associated Press announced on Thursday that it will offer new price discounts to newspapers and remove restrictions on the articles they receive, ...

A.P.: Obama "Nervously" Meets with National Security Leaders

Ari Melber | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.

Tribune Company To Drop AP

Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 10.16.2008 | Media


Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to the Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major ...

AP Refuses To Comply With Secret Service Request On Sarah Palin's Hacked E-Mails

AP | TED BRIDIS | Posted 09.18.2008 | Media


WASHINGTON -- Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alask...

AP Asks: After Gustav, Is New Orleans Worth It?

Huffington Post | Posted 09.02.2008 | Home


The AP asks the rather provocative question of, after hurricane Gustav, whether 'New Orleans is worth it?': Those who love New Orleans say Hurricane ...

Olbermann Rips AP Reporter's Analysis Of Obama Speech (VIDEO)

Editor and Publisher | Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.29.2008 | Media


In an unusually heated attack on a veteran political reporter by a cable news host, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann laced into the Associated Press's Charles ...

AP Bureau Chief To Rove: "Keep Up The Fight"

Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Buried in a 50-page report titled "Misleading Information From The Battlefield" on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch is this nugget: "Karl Rove exchange...

New Washington Bureau Chief Saving The AP Or Destroying It?

Politico | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Ron Fournier says he regards Sandy Johnson, his predecessor as head of The Associated Press's Washington bureau, as "a mentor." Johnson, though, rega...

Jason Linkins

AP Gives McCain 'Cigarettes' Story A Ridiculous Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...

Jeff Jarvis: AP Dispute "The Millennial Clash Of Media Models"

Guardian | Jeff Jarvis | Posted 06.30.2008 | Media


The Associated Press didn't know what it stepped in when it sent a lawyer's letter to the blog Drudge Retort (a Drudge Report parody) demanding that i...

NBC: No Live Online Feeds for 2008 Games

CNET | Harrison Hoffman | Posted 06.29.2008 | Media


NBC will not be offering live online feeds of any events that will be broadcast on TV. The ones broadcast on TV will, of course, include the most popu...

Associated Press Members Split Over Focus On Online News Sites

Wall Street Journal | Russell Adams | Posted 06.26.2008 | Media


As the economic pressure on newspapers intensifies, the Associated Press, a 162-year-old newsgathering cooperative for the industry, is beginning to f...

Confronting Huntington

Robert Brustein | Posted 05.20.2008 | Entertainment


Robert Brustein

I thought I had been summoned into Huntington's presence to discuss artistic matters. Instead, he remarked upon the title of the magazine and asked me what I thought of "Theatre."

A&P Heir Huntington Hartford, Who Blew Through Fortune, Dies At 97

AP | MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 05.20.2008 | Business


SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Huntington Hartford, the deep-pocketed A&P grocery heir who burned through most of a $100 million fortune in a series of...

Obama to Return to Iowa Tuesday to Kick Off General

Beverly Davis | Posted 05.17.2008 | Home


Beverly Davis

The "welcome back" rally scheduled for Tuesday in Des Moines is a thank you to the white working class voters who catapulted him to the front of the race and gave Clinton her first taste of defeat.

Murdoch, Zell Appointed to AP Board

AP | Posted 04.14.2008 | Media


WASHINGTON — Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members jo...

The Press Hits Rewind on the Clinton Scandals

Eric Boehlert | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The release of Hillary Clinton's White House schedules hit the rewind button in lots of newsrooms last week as reporters jumped at the chance to talk about White House sex and and pretend it was news.

Marriage Does Not Lower Blood Pressure -- Reading Matrimaniacal Media Accounts Raises It

Bella DePaulo | Posted 03.22.2008 | Media


Bella DePaulo

If getting married really did make people healthier, and did so in a way that no other close relationship or meaningful life experiences could approximate, that would be a story worth reporting.

"New Indiana Jones Trailer is Smash Hit"

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment


Erik Lundegaard

Yesterday I saw the same headline in a lot of newspapers. About Iraq? Pakistan? About the March 4 showdown between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? No. About the trailer for the new Indiana Jones movie.

Breaking News: Obama's Car Does Not Have A Giant, Yellow, Magnetic "I Support The Troops!" Ribbon

Karen Russell | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics


Karen Russell

WASHINGTON - A photo appearing on the internet of Senator Barack Obama's Chrysler 300 without a giant, yellow, magnetic "I Support The Troops!" ribbon...

Exodus of Clinton's Superdelegates Not About Black and White

Al Giordano | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics


Al Giordano

Why does the AP have to screw up by trying - inaccurately - to make a story about superdelegates about race?

AP Board Signs Off on New Pricing Plan

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 02.01.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — The board of directors of The Associated Press gave final approval to a new pricing plan Thursday that will overhaul how the news coo...