<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a0fcf9b1-b453-4116-b9f6-02b021036000/E24FD414-150F-4A0D-A4AC-84D9237CAB78/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/10/the-wire-will-t.html" href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/10/the-wire-will-t.html" style="font-size: 11px;">newsblogs.chicagotribune.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/10/the-wire-will-t.html"><H1>The Wire, episode 1: Will Trib drop AP?</H1> <TABLE width="515"><TBODY><TR><TD><FONT id="text"> <P><A href="http://www.tribune.com/" target="new">Tribune Co.</A> confirmed Thursday that it has notified the Associated Press this week that the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and its other newspapers it might end their relationship with the news cooperative, effective in October 2010.</p> <P>The company's contract with the AP requires it to give two years' notice for termination. Monday's notice, which would enable Tribune Co. newspapers to drop the wire service as of Oct. 15. 2010, will have no immediate impact on the papers but begins a dialogue internally and with the cooperative over what role, if any, the AP will play in their future.</P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/10/the-wire-will-t.html">The move by Tribune Co. papers is the biggest potential AP defection to date and comes 10 months after billionaire Sam Zell took Chicago-based media giant private late last year. Zell, Tribune Co.'s chairman and chief executive, was elected to the Associated Press' board of directors last spring.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E24FD414-150F-4A0D-A4AC-84D9237CAB78/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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