AP in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits’ Journalism

Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The AP will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources. Starting on 1 July, the AP will deliver work by the Centre for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Centre for Investigative Reporting, and ProPublica to the 1,500 American newspapers that are AP members, which will be free to publish the material. The AP called the arrangement a six-month experiment that could later be broadened to include other investigative nonprofits, and to serve its nonmember clients, which include broadcast and Internet outlets