Metro US drops AP
Free daily Metro in the US (New York, Boston, Philadelphia) is dropping the Associated Press wire service from April 1 on. The US editions will rely more on other wire services, Metro International’s own network and own local reporting.
According to Tony Metcalf, editor in chief of Metro USA: “By relying more on our own reporting staff, we make a substantial saving while protecting the newspapers’ quality and improving relevance to our local.” (Crain’s)
August 27th, 2010 at 4:06 pm
[...] of unsubscribing to wire services seems to be international, in the US Metro stopped using AP (see previous post). In the Netherlands, financial paper Financieele Dagblad ended their subscription to national [...]