The Associated Press is launching a pilot project aimed at
increasing local news coverage and improving the way member news organizations
collaborate with one another, according to the AP.
With
support from the Google News Initiative, AP is building an online tool
that enables members to share their coverage plans to more efficiently cover
local news, the AP says.
It will
also allow participating news organizations to share their journalism,
increasing the amount of local news stories in their communities.
“AP
is committed to helping our members deliver great local journalism in every way
that we can,” said AP Deputy Managing Editor for U.S. News Noreen Gillespie.
“This kind of collaboration is core to the AP — it’s why we were founded more
than 170 years ago. Empowering our members to share coverage plans allows them
to be more efficient in covering local news stories at a critical time when
newsrooms have to make smart decisions about where to put their
resources.”
"A key
tenet of the Google News Initiative is to work together with publishers like
the AP to foster a healthy and diverse news ecosystem," said Google
Director of U.S. News and Publishing Partnerships Nathalie Sajous.
The pilot project,
called the Local News Sharing Network, will take place in New York
Nearly two
dozen members plan to participate, including The Daily Freeman, The Observer
Dispatch, The Times Union, WFUV, WRNN and the Adirondack Daily Enterprise,
according to AP.
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