HOW A 180-YEAR-OLD NEWS INSTITUTION PREPARES FOR ITS NEXT REINVENTION

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The Associated Press is turning 180 years of journalism into a data business, deconstructing its reporting into structured and unstructured data sold to other industries alongside its traditional news distribution. The shift runs alongside a deliberately short AI licensing strategy, one-to-three-year deals built on protecting journalists' intellectual property and securing fair value as models train on AP content. Newspapers, once AP's dominant customer base, now generate under 10% of its revenue, with data licensing and diversified income filling the rest.