Some Papers in Financial Trouble Are Leaving the A.P. to Cut Costs

For most of its 137-year history, The Columbus Dispatch has carried articles and images from The Associated Press. Like most big American newspapers, it supplements the work of its own staff with dozens of items daily from The A.P.

That may end soon.

Unhappy with both the A.P. service and its price — more than $800,000 a year at a time when The Dispatch’s finances are severely pinched — the paper on Friday took the once-unthinkable step of saying it would drop the service.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/business/media/20ap.html?emc=tnt&tntem...