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AP Expands Nonprofit News Distribution

The Associated Press is expanding its experiment to distribute content from nonprofit, public-interest news providers like the Center for Investigative Reporting to newspapers.

The AP picked up a fifth news provider -- the Maynard Institute -- and announced it has been working out the kinks of distribution, pushing content directly into newspaper's content management systems rather than forcing editors to search for it.

Previously the project "was less pathbreaking than participants had hoped it would be when it was first announced - largely because the nonprofits' content (most of it, anyway) simply wasn't picked up by newspapers," writes Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber.

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