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Associated Press : has the AP found the gateway to digital riches? / Jed Williams.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: [London] : SAGE, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781473972674 (ebook) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.421 23
Online resources: Mark Twain once proclaimed, 'There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.' Mahatma Gandhi joked, 'I suppose when I go to the Hereafter and stand at the Golden Gate, the first person I shall meet will be a correspondent of the Associated Press.' As Twain's and Gandhi's comments attest, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the Associated Press was one of the world's leading news gathering forces. Founded soon after the invention of the telegraph, the AP was organized as a collective of newspapers that agreed to share their content. This case study discusses this topic.
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Originally Published in: Williams, J. (2010). Associated Press: Has the AP Found the Gateway to Digital Riches? 10-038. New Haven, CT: Yale School of Management, Yale University.

Mark Twain once proclaimed, 'There are only two forces that can carry light to all corners of the globe - the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.' Mahatma Gandhi joked, 'I suppose when I go to the Hereafter and stand at the Golden Gate, the first person I shall meet will be a correspondent of the Associated Press.' As Twain's and Gandhi's comments attest, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the Associated Press was one of the world's leading news gathering forces. Founded soon after the invention of the telegraph, the AP was organized as a collective of newspapers that agreed to share their content. This case study discusses this topic.

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