AP suspends coverage of Australian cricket, again
The Associated Press will suspend coverage of cricket in Australia for the second consecutive international season because of a dispute over conditions for accreditation imposed by Cricket Australia. The AP was joined by Reuters and Agence France-Presse in a global news coalition that will not cover the three-test series against the West Indies that starts Thursday in Brisbane. The news agencies also refused to cover the 2008-09 series in Australia involving South Africa and New Zealand.
A similar dispute in the 2007-08 season between CA and the three agencies was settled after coverage was suspended for the first test match between Australia and Sri Lanka. Cricket Australia and news agencies have been discussing the latest accreditation terms for several months.
Cricket Australia has demanded the right to see the agencies’ lists of clients and to veto any they decide should not receive pictures and text coverage of the tests. It also wants to impose limits on the number and frequency of text and photo updates for Web sites and on the duration of images in photographic archives.
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