AP urges news industry to embrace online ("stop pining...")

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AP urges news industry to embrace online
By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer
Fri Nov 2, 3:34 AM ET


NEW YORK - Tom Curley, CEO of The Associated Press, called on news executives Thursday to "stop pining" for the past and adapt to the new ways that news is being distributed and consumed.


Curley said in a speech that news organizations should quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online and customizing the ways they see and read it.

"Editors need to stop pining for the old world and intensify the leading to the new one," Curley told a fundraising dinner for the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship, a program at Columbia University for business journalists.

I have to laugh when a talking head tells me something, portentiously, that I read about a week ago online...