Will AP Suffer As Papers Turn Local? (Part 2)

It was gutsy move when the Idaho Falls Post-Register gave notice earlier this month to AP that it didn’t intend to continue using the wire service’s content.

Now a significantly larger paper — the Minneapolis Star-Tribune — is doing the same. David Brauer comments:

But these days, newspapers see their future as local and distinctive. Following that logic, it makes sense to hoard their unique content and pay less for wire-service dispatches that are now plastered everywhere on the web.

(Hat tip: Romenesko)