After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press, the 161-year-old news cooperative, is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create. “You have to adjust to the marketplace,” said Jim Kennedy, The A.P.’s vice president for strategic planning. “The new generation of consumers has completely different habits.” To [...]

Google has struck deals with four major international news agencies that will see its Google News site become a publisher of their news stories. Google News allows consumers to search by keywords for news summaries and links to news stories, grouping together related stories based on a computer analysis of the material’s underlying thematic relationships. The [...]

NEW YORK: The Associated Press will be ending its highly-touted “asap” service in October, E&P has learned. Staffers were notified this morning about its October 31 demise as a stand alone. It’s not known if any layoffs will come. About 200 newspapers subscribed to the service. It was launched in 2005 as a response to the growth [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that’s trying to help the media gain more control over digital content. Under an agreement to be announced Thursday, the AP will subscribe to a [...]

Canadian publisher Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters for about £8.7 billion ($17.2 billion), creating the world’s leading provider of news and data for professional markets. Reuters Founders Share Company, which has the power to block a change of ownership at the 156-year-old company, backed the deal but it still needs regulatory clearance and [...]

The Associated Press has launched a weblog aimed at younger audiences. Far And Wide provides signposts to the news stories flying across the AP’s global news wires, from the agency staff’s own perspective. According to the debut entry, it will be “a fresh way into the news, one that puts you squarely in the places where [...]

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It’s unlikely that any of her fellow [...]

The moribund International Islamic News Agency (IINA), a media front of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), is set to for a revamp by the year-end. Turkey’s Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a 57-member block of Islamic states, attends a meeting in Islamabad, Pakistan on Sunday, February 25, 2007. [...]

The Associated Press (AP) has entered into an agreement with Voxant Inc to distribute a selection of its news stories, videos and photographs to blogs and other websites through Voxant’s advertising-supported syndication network. Through a website called TheNewsRoom.com, Voxant allows Web publishers to select news stories, photos and videos from various providers and legally embed them [...]

(February 20, 2007) — My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don’t fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I’m proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I’m certainly not going to [...]

ER-RIYADH, February 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency signed a cooperation agreement with the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on the sidelines of the Russian leader’s landmark visit to the richest Arab nation. The document, signed by RIA Novosti’s editor-in-chief Svetlana Mironyuk and Saudi Minister of Culture Iyad Madani, is designed to improve [...]

It was vigilant bloggers who first raised questions about the validity of two Reuters photographs of Israeli military action in Lebanon published last summer. In one, wisps of smoke rising over Beirut seemed identical, as if extra smoke had been added to enhance the image. In the other the accusation was that the number of [...]

Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. “India’s ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country’s unfolding success stories,” Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency’s office in Kuala Lampur. Union [...]

News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP’s breaking news coverage. In just 12 months, NowPublic has become the one of the largest news organisations of its kind with over 60,000 reporters in over 140 [...]

Russian news agency RIA Novosti will be entering the print media segment with the launch of an English-language weekly newspaper on Friday, the agency’s editor-in-chief said on Thursday. The Moscow News, one of Russia’s oldest English language periodicals, will now be relaunched in a new version, with considerable changes in both content and design. “The [...]