Now here’s an essay exam question if ever I tripped over one. But maybe Dr. J’s students in international news criticism were snoozing – it was after lunch -- when we discussed the 1846 founding of the Associated Press cooperative wire service and the impact of the 19th century telegraph on newsgathering.
Rick Edmonds, Poynter media business analyst, posted the divorce question on PoynterOnline after the Chicago Tribune and Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch gave AP notice last week. He asked AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll what she thought newspapers would miss most. Her reply: sports coverage and AP’s “fast, steady diet of multimedia news for the newspaper’s Web site.” What has Morse wrought? Telegraph to multimedia!
Techology aside, what about the international news supplied by news editors and correspondents in more than 90 AP bureaus around the world? Will newpaper readers miss that?
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