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By: AP expands its content-distribution experiment with nonprofit news » Nieman Journalism Lab » Pushing to the Future of Journalism

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:02:16 +0000

[...] in this case because the AP’s nonprofit-distribution effort has been an undertaking that, as our Laura McGann noted in February, was less pathbreaking than participants had hoped it would be when it was first announced — [...]

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Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:37:44 +0000

[...] or produced by somebody within the mainstream media club. Hell, even the larger non-profits have trouble distributing their content to the AP. It’s a challenge and we’ve gotten around it by partnering with news organizations from [...]

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:12:43 +0000

[...] to reprint it and amplify the message. (They also participate in a young, and struggling, AP-nonprofit distribution program.) The Washington Independent tracks both media pickup and how its work resulted in real change. [...]

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Wild Woman Fundraising — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:51:38 +0000

[...] Lab did a six month experiment trying to get nonprofit news in with the Associated [...]

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Journalism Today - Tracking Media Changes » Home — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:42:16 +0000

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By: Fit to Print

Fit to Print — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:11:54 +0000

[...] underwhelming results of the AP Exchange platform, an eminently worthwhile endeavor which opened up solid, nonprofit resources for wire purposes, but [...]

By: Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:18:32 +0000

Why should the non-profit stories be specially labelled? Shouldn’t they compete on their own merits with all the other news stories? If the non-profit content can’t stand on its own without special labels and pushing and prodding, then it has no place in the news economy.

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Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:29:31 +0000

[...] interesting story from the Nieman Jounalism Lab reports on the outcome of Associated Press’ decision to distribute content from [...]

By: Joe Shea

Joe Shea — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:46:16 +0000

The AP, where content goes to die. Seriously, it’s ludicrous at the botoom of this to think that the AP is going to spend much time or money on propagating stuff from outside its bureaus. I think for a number of years now its leaden formula journalism has gained a reputation for leaving its member newspapers dead on the floor. It’s not where you would go to improve circulation. But the AP would have no trouble folding the project into its vast fleshy maws and sucking all the goodwill and juicy public interest publicity out of it and then letting it strangle on its own. They don’t call AP stuff “vaporware” for nothing.

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links for 2010-02-20 — contentious.com — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:03:43 +0000

[...] Six months in to AP’s nonprofit distribution project, not a lot of picked-up stories to show for i… AP bungles technology again. [...]

By: Kathy Best

Kathy Best — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:54:51 +0000

AP Exchange is clunky, but I would also like to suggest another factor that may be at play here. Newspapers are shrinking and, with few exceptions, emphasizing their geographic roots. Finding newshole to accommodate national investigative projects, when that space is at a premium even for local investigative work, is extremely difficult.

By: John Raess

John Raess — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:05:38 +0000

Laura, glad to see that the story is out, it may raise the awareness of editors to what is available to them. One comment: The line “the nonprofits’ stories on AP Exchange are found only if someone goes hunting for them,” needs a little clarification. As you note, stories from nonprofits will show up in the subject searches. So if an editor searches on a topic, related AP stories, pieces from other wires and nonprofit stories will all come back in the same results list — no hunting required. If you want to scroll through just the nonprofit offerings, they have a separate content category (@Lee Barnes – in the Market Place section in the left nav bar). And, @Jennifer Deseo and @Francine Polsky, I would argue that The AP isn’t behind on this idea, it is ahead. I think — obviously I am invested — that at worst we’re waiting for technology to catch up with the concept.

By: Lee Barnes

Lee Barnes — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:41:32 +0000

AP Exchange is not easy to use. Most members of my newspaper staff have never used it, preferring the simplicity of the integrated wires within our computer system. AP needs to treat these stories as it would Member Exchange stories, so that we’ll actually see them.

By: Francine Polsky

Francine Polsky — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:01:43 +0000

AP may not be with the progam, but these intiatives have had stories picked up all over the country in newspapers and online, blogs,etc.
Sounds like AP is slow to the starting gun. What a shame. They are missing out on putting out some top rate investigative journlism on the wire. Get with it AP. Stories are being tweeted, fb, etc. And in Chicago Trib, LA Times, and several Cal. papers and other national news sources. St.Pete etc.

By: Jennifer Deseo

Jennifer Deseo — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:12:03 +0000

What a shame that investigative reporting should be held up because of a clumsy distribution system. I hope AP works that out.