The Associated Press and German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) announced today an expansion of their longstanding collaboration, with dpa becoming the exclusive distributor of AP news video and live video services in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
The new agreement extends the relationship between the two news organizations for another decade. AP and dpa have had a text and photo agreement since 2013, allowing each organization to use and distribute the other’s journalism in their respective markets.
Under the expanded agreement, dpa will exclusively license AP’s news video services in the four countries. AP will continue to manage its video archive business in those markets.
Using material from both news organizations, dpa also plans to develop new video services for digital customers. The offerings will include raw and ready-to-publish video.
“The partnership with AP generates tangible added value for our customers. They receive an attractive and comprehensive video offering from a single source, combining regional, national and international moving-image content with live video,” says dpa CEO Peter Kropsch. “At the same time, the partnership demonstrates the opportunities that arise when independent news agencies combine their strengths. Fact-based news is an essential foundation for democratic awareness and decision-making. Our collaboration helps to safeguard this foundation, in a media landscape increasingly shaped by video and artificial intelligence.”
“AP and dpa have worked closely together for over a decade, and this agreement reflects our shared commitment to independent, fact-based journalism and to meeting the changing needs of our customers,” said AP President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham. “By bringing together the strengths of both organizations across formats, we can provide customers with a broader range of high-quality news and develop new services for a rapidly changing market.”
About AP
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. Online: www.ap.org
About dpa
The German Press Agency (dpa) was founded in 1949 and is one of the world’s leading independent news agencies. dpa supplies media groups, companies and organisations with editorial content. This includes texts, photos, videos, graphics, radio reports and other formats. As an internationally active agency, dpa reports in seven languages. Approximately 1,000 journalists work from around 130 locations in Germany and abroad. Around 170 German media companies are dpa shareholders. The central editorial office, headed by Editor-in-Chief Sven Gösmann, is located in Berlin. The executive board, headed by CEO Peter Kropsch, is based at the company’s headquarters in Hamburg. The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Daniel Schöningh (Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich).
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Patrick Maks
Director, Media Relations and Corporate Communications
The Associated Press
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Jens Petersen
Head of Corporate Communications
dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH
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