CNN offers wire service content

Editor & Publisher reports that CNN is about to offer its own news wire content to newspapers around the country.
The move comes as Associated Press, the dominant wire service in the U.S., is struggling with changes in rate structure and and the loss of several large newspaper customers, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

In a letter to numerous newspaper editors, CNN is boasting its new CNN Wire will "provide stories of interest to your newspaper and online readers -- breaking news, national, international, business, politics, consumer, medical, and more.

Several newspaper editors have been invited by CNN to an all-expense-paid trip to a three-day summit in Atlanta, where CNN will show off its new service and take input from the editors.

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