• Editor & Publisher, Friday, October 17, 2008 9:17 AM

Tribune Company has given a two-year notice to The Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so.

Tribune, owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and several smaller papers, joins other newspapers that have sought to end their relationship with AP, following AP's plans for a new rate structure next year.

The two-year notice is required as part of all AP current contracts, so Tribune will not be cutting wire service content immediately. If Associated Press executives blink, negotiations may result in a new contract with rates that the Tribune papers can live with.

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