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How the AP got a hold of its big, old data
Holding onto millions of pieces of archived content it still wanted to monetize, the Associated Press turned to a NoSQL database. Specifically, it turned to MarkLogic, a non-relational database...
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Associated Press plugs into music hub Audiosocket
The Associated Press continues to evolve from a news service to a broader, one-stop shop for a broad variety of content. AP now has audio offerings thanks to a new alliance with indie music licensor...
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New York Times backs AP in lawsuit against news collector Meltwater
The New York Times is supporting the Associated Press in a controversial copyright case against Meltwater, a service that monitors the news and reproduces headlines and story summaries for its clients....
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AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use
A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it. The case has...
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AP’s Twitter account suspended after hacking incident roils markets
Hackers published a fake tweet from the Twitter account of the Associated Press Tuesday morning, describing explosions at the White House and an injury to President Obama. The White House quickly...
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AP returns to Twitter after hack — but where are its 2 million followers?
The Associated Press is back on Twitter after yesterday’s hacking incident, which roiled financial markets with a fake tweet about explosions at the White House. But something is still amiss — the news...
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AP Goes To Its Board To Replace Curley; Hires McClatchy's Pruitt As CEO
The Associated Press board didn’t go far afield to hire the president and CEO who will succeed Tom Curley this summer. Gary Pruitt is as in house as it gets without being a staffer, serving on that...
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Feds grab reporters’ phone records: war on terror — or war on leaks?
The Associated Press revealed on Monday that the Justice Department secretly obtained records for more than 20 phone lines belonging to its reporters and editors. The seizures affected both personal...
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Why scoops and objectivity matter less and less — because context is everything
We’ve argued before that the life-span of a breaking-news alert or scoop is declining rapidly, thanks in part to the rise of social-news platforms like Twitter and Facebook — and also that a ruthless...
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Errol Morris and Tom Green, Lehman Bros. News: NTV Station Today
The extended version of Errol Morris’s Stand Up To Cancer features interviews with a wide spectrum of cancer survivors (including Friend of NewTeeVee Tom Green) about their experiences — it’s an...
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AP Mobile News Proves Quite Popular
This past week the Associated Press announced that their Mobile News Network received some 16 million page views for the month of August. How does this relate to Apple? 95% of those 16 million page...
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thePlatform Gets More Social
White-label video publishing company thePlatform has rolled out new features that will allow video publishers to utilize social sharing functionality in their video players, enabling viewers to embed...
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Google Extends Peace Accord With Associated Press
After months of negotiation and brinksmanship, Google has finally renewed its content-sharing deal with the Associated Press newswire service, according to a brief post on the Google blog and a short...
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Now That We Have the Web, Do We Need Associated Press?
Media analyst Clay Shirky says that the list of things that the Internet has killed -- or is in the process of killing -- includes media syndication of the kind that the Associated Press is built on,...
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Memo to AP: Twitter is the newswire now
In another sign that it doesn't really understand the evolution of media in the age of Twitter, the Associated Press has admonished its journalists for posting news about their own arrests to Twitter...
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NewsCred gets $4 million to reinvent the newswire
NewsCred, which started off trying to filter the news for consumers based on credibility, has created what it says is the modern digital version of a traditional newswire and signed up more than 750...
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NewsRight: A carrot, or a stick to beat aggregators with?
The Associated Press and a consortium of major media owners such as the New York Times have launched a "news registry" called NewsRight. The entity says it is about tracking and licensing content, but...
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Did the AP just declare war on news aggregators?
A lawsuit filed by the Associated Press against news aggregator Meltwater, accusing it of copyright infringement and "free riding" on its content, is just another sign that the newswire is trying to...
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Why we should be celebrating the rise of robot journalism instead of...
The Associated Press says it will use algorithm-generated content from Automated Insights to produce earnings reports, which has some professional journalists nervous about robots taking their jobs --...
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