Metro USA Parts Ways with Associated Press
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Effective April 1, don’t be surprised if you don’t see much of Associated Press on Metro USA Newspapers. Metro USA, which publishes daily titles in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, has terminated its contract with the Associated Press.
“We believe that the future of our titles lies in producing as much of our own material as possible. Encouraging existing staff to write more and employing new writers gives us a higher degree of flexibility and results in a product which is more relevant to the young, professional audience we, and our advertisers, seek,” says Tony Metcalf, Editor in Chief of Metro USA. “Another factor in our decision was cost, something that cannot be ignored in these difficult economic times. By relying more on our own reporting staff, we make a substantial saving while protecting the newspapers’ quality and improving relevance to our local markets.”
The newspapers will be using other sources of content for its local and national news. As an international newspaper and one of the world’s largest news organizations with more than 600 journalists on staff, Metro benefits from use of its 84 daily editions worldwide to provide up-to-minute global news coverage.
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