REUTERS AND AP TO END

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00115R000300040011-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: July 19, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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day the termination of a long-
standing agreement on the ex-
;change of news.
JUL 19 iss7
Reuters and AP to End
News Exchange Accord
NEW YORK, July 18 (AP)?
The Associated Press and
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The agreement, dating from
I: 'World War I, provided that
'Reuters would supply news
;from the British Isles in re-
turn for the Associated Press
supplying news from the
United States. Each agency
was free to distribute the
other's news in countries other
than that In which it was
gathered.
The arrangement will be
terminated as of Sept. 7, after
which each organization will
Make its own ' arrangements
for ,gathering news in Britain
acd the, Upited States, ream?
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AP, Reuters
News Link
Ends Sept. 7
A long-standing news ex-
change agreement between the
Associated Press and Reuters
will end on September 7.
A brief announcement dis-
tributed by both news agencies
on Tuesday (July 18) said that
from the cut off date each
"organization will make its own
arrangements for gathering
news in England and the
United States respectively."
The agreement, dating from
World War I, provided that
Reuters-. would supply news
from the British Isles in return
for the AP supplying news
from the United States. Each
agency was free to distribute
the other's news in countries
other than that in which it was
gathered.
Cost of Coverage
AP's general manager, Wes
Gallagher, told E&P: "Over the
years the value of news from
the United States has increased.
Also, it's costing more cash to
cover the U.S. Last year we
spent ? $51-million on a world
wide basis on news gathering.
Reuters spent approximately
$12-million . . . we asked the
Reuters management to pay a
differential. They decided not to
do so, preferring instead to
increase- their own staff cover-
age from the U.S."
Gallagher said AP had re-
ceived the Press Association
coverage from Britain through
Reuters. Now, the AP will be
dealing directly with Press As-
sociation in London. "We have
a large bureau in London which,
together with the PA report,
will provide us with exactly the
same news file as before."
A spokesman at Reuters'
New York bureau commented:
"All I can tell you is that termi-
nation of the agreement was
decided by management . . .
London executiyes will he draw-
ing up a plan for expanded
coverage in the U.S. by our own
correspondents replacing the
service we had from AP."
Under the agreement,
Reuters took the AP's 'A' wire,
rewriting leads and changing
copy styles for its British audi-
ence. Reuters maintains its own
bureau in Washington which
provides independent coverage
from the U.S. capital. Simi-
larly, Reuters has staff corre-
spondents manning a bureau at
the United Nations.
When the agreement with AP
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terminates, it seems likely that
Reuters will establish bureaus
in Los Angeles, San Francisco,
and, possibly in a Texas city.
The agency ' as stringers in
other major U.S. cities.
Stormy Years
The relationship between AP
and Reuters has been one of
mutual cooperation, particularly
in recent years, following a
period of stormy policy and
competitive disagreements.
It was a relationship that
began in 1893 allowing the
newly formed Associated Press
to win a decisive victory over
the old United Press. Preferring
to deal directly with a national
association of newspapers, the
Reuter agency offered the exclu-
sive cartel contract to the AP.
It was accepted and from that
moment the new agency went
forward to success, but AP at
the same time became a fettered
member of the European cartel.
The latter situation took yeais
to overcome.
The earlier relationship be-
tween AP and Reuter was well
summed up in comments made
in 1951 at a Centenary dinner
for the British news agency by
the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, noted amid
laughter, "I confess that I find
myself surprised and even taken
aback tonight because here
everything is billing and cooing
between Reuters and the AP of
the United States. As I read
the book "Reuters Century"
they were bitter enemies, and
Mr. Kent Cooper (AP general
manager) led the fight from the
other side. Well, I am very glad
to find that in one sphere of
human endeavor peace has
supervened. . ."
In recent history Reuters be-
came a cooperative like the AP,
its ownership resting with pub-
lishers of the national and
provincial newspapers in Eng-
land and several in Australia
and New Zealand.
Two AANR Chapters
Elect New Officers
Two chapters of the Ameri-
can Association of Newspaper
Representatives have announced
new officers for the coming year,
through June 30, 1968:
Kansas City?Cranston M.
Lintecum (Allen-Klapp) presi-
dent; Robert Linton (South-
west Dailies) vicepresident; and
William Bonham (Branham)
secretary-treasurer.
Philadelphia?Dana Carroll
(Cresmer, Woodward, O'Mara
& Ormsbee) president; Russell
E. Franz (Julius Mathews)
vicepresident; and Robert
Kramer (Katz) seer. eta r y-
treasurer.
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UTICTPapers
UTICA, N. Y.
Striking pressmen continued
to block publication this week
of the Utica Observer- Dispatch
and Utica Daily Press, Gannett
Group newspapers. Negotia-
tions with the pressmen's union
collapsed July 17.
Picket lines were set up out-
side the plant which produces
the morning Press and the eve-
ning-Sunday Observer-Dispatch.
The pressmen walked out when
they failed to reach agreement
with management over manning
of new presses expected to come
into operation at the plant next
spring.
Herman E. Moecker, pub-
lisher, told E&P: "We bought
10 Scott press units from the
Dallas Times Herald, the pur-
chase being made in 1965. We
expect to have them in opera-
tion next year, therefore we
started discussing new manning
schedules. The union has been
asking for two additional men
on each machine over our pres-
ent manning?an approximate
manning increase of between
30-35 percent."
Moecker, who sent a letter to
330 fulltime " employes of the
newspaper asking them to re-
turn to work, reported that by
mid-week he had full employ-
ment in advertising and circula-
tion departments, "plus a third
of the regular editorial team
reporting for work."
Unions observing picket lines
set up by the 14 striking mem-
bers of Local 58 of the printing
and pressmen's union, were
printers, stereotypers and en-
gravers. According to Moecker,
some guild members were cross-
ing the line.
The contract with the press-
men expired Feb. 1. In addition
to the manning issue, the press-
men are seeking wage increases
and other benefits. Contract
issues with other unions, re-
portedly, remain to be settled.
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Irving L. Martin Dies
STOCKTON, Calif.
Irving L. Martin, 48, pub-
lisher of the Stockton Record
and third generation member of
the newspaper's founding fam-
ily, died in his sleep July 19.
After military service he be-
came co-publisher with Ross
Williams in 1952, when his
grandfather died. He advanced
to publisher and president when
Williams died last year.
Chicago's American and the
AFL-CIO Chicago Editorial As-
sociation have agreed to wage
scales that will bring reporter:
an increase of $30 a week or
June 10, 1968, and rewritemer
and copy readers $25 more r
week on the same date.
Rewrite and copy desk mer
who are receiving $190 a wee]
got $205 effective June 12. The:
go to $210 Dec. 11 then to $21.
next year. Reporters, now a.
$175 go to $205 in steps of $191
and $200.
A feature of the new agree
ment, according to Don Husch
union president and an Ameni
can copy reader, is that over
scale editorial personnel re
ceived the same raises, rathe?
than the difference betweei
present salary and the ner
scale. Sub-editors received a $:
weekly increase and now an
$20 over scale, or $235 by Jun,
10, 1968.
The agreement provides threi
weeks extra vacation for base
ball writers and paid holiday.
during the sports seasons; in
creased gasoline and meal al
lowances; prorated vacatioi
time for retirees; and a mop
liberal nightside differentia
policy.
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Dean Kenneth Olson
Of Medill School Dies
EVANSTON, Ill
Kenneth E. Olson, 71, deal
emeritus of Northwestern Uni
versity's Medill School of Joui
nalism, died July 13 of a hear
attack. He was Medill den
from 1937 to 1957, retiring hi
cause of ill health.
At Medill he introduced th
first five-year training prograr
for journalists and the maste
of science degree in journalisrr
He continued to teach until 196
as dean emeritus and also di;
research for his book, "The His
tory Makers," published
1966. He had worked for news
papers in Minnesota and Wis
consin, later was managing edi
tor of the Madison (Wis.
Capital Times.
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Financial Editor
CHICAC
Louis Saxon has been a];
pointed financial editor of Chi
cago's American, succeed in;
Thomas G. Michelmore, retire('
William Gruber succeeds Saxo,
as assistant financial editoi
Saxon has been with the Amen:
can since 1928.
EDITOR & PUBLISHER for July 22, 196!
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