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 NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press will freeze its basic rates for newspaper and broadcast members for a second year in a row in 2008 and is proposing changes that would allow them to customize the news services they receive, the CEO of the news cooperative said Monday.
Tom Curley said the AP is "keenly aware of the challenges facing members," referring to the sluggish advertising and circulation trends at newspapers as readers turn in greater numbers to the Internet.
With that in mind, Curley said the news cooperative's board has agreed to continue a freeze of basic assessments for AP's member organizations. Those charges rose an average of 2.7 percent per year between 2002 and 2006.
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