{"id":577,"date":"2007-08-31T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2007-08-31T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T11:20:00","slug":"cnn-drops-reuters-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/08\/cnn-drops-reuters-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN drops Reuters TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">E<\/span>very time an agency contract comes up for review at a news organization, there will always be someone saying: \u201cCouldn\u2019t we just do without [<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">insert name of agency here<\/span>]?\u201d Generally, it is what\u2019s known as a negotiating tactic. This time it\u2019s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tony Maddox<\/span> of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">CNN International<\/span>, and the agency is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Reuters<\/span>, and apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/businessNews\/idUSN3042438020070830\" target=\"_blank\">he means business<\/a>.<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>There are very good reasons not to rely on agencies. Operationally, it forces your newsgathering to be more self-reliant, but the real bonus is commercial &#8211; you own what you shoot. And there are very good reasons to rely on them &#8211; they have different and complementary strengths, they can be in places you can&#8217;t ever be.<\/p>\n<p>Still disentangling yourself from a relationship like this is a major logistical headache. I\u2019m sure Reuters (and CNN teams)will be keeping tabs on all those times CNN don\u2019t have access to the key pictures or the crucial angle. But will the audience notice?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I\u2019d be more convinced of the commercial argument if Maddox put numbers on the investment CNN is making in its newsgathering. If it\u2019s more than it was paying Reuters that\u2019s an investment. If not, that squeezing sound is the belt being tightened.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time an agency contract comes up for review at a news organization, there will always be someone saying: \u201cCouldn\u2019t we just do without [insert name of agency here]?\u201d Generally, it is what\u2019s known as a negotiating tactic. This time it\u2019s Tony Maddox of CNN International, and the agency is Reuters, and apparently he means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[39,250],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-cnn","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}