Publishing its new pricing structure this week, the Associated Press has been criticised by some of its newspaper members, David Kaplan writes over on paidContent.org.
Having concluded a drawn-out battle between the AP and member papers over next year’s change in fee structure, a handful of newspapers are expressing betrayal at the AP’s increased interest in cultivating Yahoo and Google —for an entity that was started 162 years ago by a band of New York newspapers—some members are acting like they’ve suddenly been disowned by the family patriarch.
Newspapers used to make up half of the AP’s members, but now they’re at 27% and by next year will drop 2% to a quarter.
The question is how do they keep the old guard happy while pushing ahead with online, which they need to do to survive?
I’ll have to ponder that one over the weekend!
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