June 16, 2008 8:37PM 

# AP and the Future of News 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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The tech blogoshpere is [up in](http://techdirt.com/articles/20080616/0635571413.shtml) [arms](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/) about efforts by the Associated Press to curb quoting of its articles online.

Last week, we published a *TechKnowledge* called “[The Future of News: A Golden Age for Free Speech?](https://www.cato.org/tech/tk/080609-tk.html)”. In it, Steve Boriss discussed some history of the AP, Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the free press, and the challenges that the modern era presents to the news publishing business.

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