It's part of how the Associated Press operates; it's why you can read about a big Missouri news story in a newspaper in California (or wherever) without the Los

It's part of how the Associated Press operates; it's why you can read about a big Missouri news story in a newspaper in California (or wherever) without the Los Angeles Times (or whoever) needing to send their own journalist to Missouri to cover it. (And likewise, a newspaper in Missouri can cover the big local news out of California even if they don't have the budget to fly their own journalists across the country on a regular basis.) >As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press