Categories: OLD Media Moves

The International Herald-Tribune and wire business coverage

Ian W., a former International Herald-Tribune employee who now writes a blog about the paper, muses Saturday about why the Associated Press missed out on an opportunity to strike a deal with the paper for its business coverage instead of Reuters, which recently announced such an agreement.

He wrote, “AP content is king at the IHT, because they use so much of it. Will they use less of it and more of Reuters wire copy, with the new deal, not just in the business section as announced, but elsewhere in the book? My guess is yes.

“And finally, what do AP make of the Reuters deal?

“Here’s the kicker.

“If you Google any subject, or Google International Herald Tribune, you are often going to come upon AP content.

“In fact most of the IHT content blogged upon on any given day in the blogosphere is in fact not IHT generated content, but AP content.”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.