But the reality is still that the state wires have been AP’s cash cow, and they are hurting. In South Carolina, for instance, the AP office – no longer a bureau – is unstaffed many more hours, including much of the weekend, and because of my former AP life, I’ve gotten an earful on that from editors I talk with around the state. And the output of staff-generated copy is thinning.
The Ohio experiment isn’t perfect. This comment is on the Nieman post:
It’s a good idea, though disappointing that the Ohio 8 have not allowed smaller papers into the group.Read the whole sobering story at Common Sense Journalist on the state of the Associated Press.
But as the writer notes, his 9,000-circulation daily dropped AP about three weeks ago and have not received a single call about it…we are obtaining agate from PA Sportsticker.
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