AP Considering Charging News Outlets for Exclusives

If OK! magazine will pay $500,000 for the rights to run Michael Jackson’s death photo, The Associated Press, it seems, is no longer content sitting on the sidelines when it could be charging for access to the premium content it produces.

No specific details have been announced yet, but the AP is “considering whether to sell news stories to some online customers exclusively for a certain period, perhaps half an hour,” according to a report on AP chief executive Tom Curley’s remarks at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club yesterday.

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