What Would a Non-AP World Look Like?

In a previous article I wrote that the

This discussion was prompted by a speech by the CEO of AP Chip continued,

Chip, I see a news world where news is covered faster than ever before, covered by people that are much more knowledgeable about what they are covering than ever before and covered at a much more granular level than ever before. You can see what is going to happen with general news by looking at what is happening now with tech and Internet industry news.

Online news sites covering Internet related technology and business have already succeeded in replacing traditional media and the AP. Bloggers and niche news sites like dying because they are out of date by the time they reach news stands and seem irrelevant to the tech savvy ... unless you are on an airplane!

The news that Techmeme, insightfulness of the coverage because niche news sites and bloggers live and breath the industries they cover.

Other news areas are close behind tech like politics where major newsmakers and discovering facts to break big stories.

News organizations with massive audiences are still needed but less so than before. Unfortunately for the AP, their job of covering news on the scene and then syndicating it to local newspapers for a fee has been replaced by blogs, online news sites and news aggregation.

Chip, for AP this new news world is already here and they cannot afford the price of adapting.