3 posts and columns on Jim Kennedy

Is the AP Adding DRM to the News? Not Yet.

in Media on July 23, 2009 at 1:03 pm PT

Here’s the next step in the Associated Press’s attempt to adapt to the reality of the Web: It’s going to try to keep tabs on its stories, photos and videos via a “news registry that will tag and track all AP content online to assure compliance with terms of use.” At first blush, the AP’s description of the program sounds a lot like an attempt to implement digital rights management–a lock-and-key system–for the news. But at least in this iteration, that’s not the case.

Weekend Update, 4.11.09

in Social on April 11, 2009 at 2:22 pm PT

Welcome back to Weekend Update, where we showcase some of the highlights from this site over the past week. In the umpteenth round of the old versus new media match, the Associated Press in its annual meeting this week played into the stereotype of the grizzled no-nonsense editor who shakes his fist at the new interweb thing (or was it intertube?) and its feisty friend, Google News, who are running amok on his lawn.

AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye It Looks Like We’re Stupid”

in Media on April 10, 2009 at 12:38 pm PT

It’s been a bad week for the venerable news service aggregator, which seemed hell-bent on confusing everyone about its Internet strategy. Time to sit down with VP Jim Kennedy, who explains that the AP does indeed have a strategy.
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