Sixty-four percent rated their own state bureau's performance as excellent or good. The survey, mailed to 1,500 AP members, yielded 486 responses. The Day's MacCluggage, former chairman of the committee that conducted the study, says the results didn't surprise him. Working with States News Service in Washington, D.C., Reuters debuted Reuters State Business News in September. It provides reports on each of the 50 states in addition to Reuter national and international business news.
Subscribers receive home-state business news free but pay a fee for coverage of other states.
Privately held UPI retains 1,000 staff members and stringers in 90 bureaus in 72 countries. In the area of new media, UPI provides national news on line to The Microsoft Network. We inherited a low-technology base and we've advanced from there. That presents a rather obvious problem. In general, wire-service executives remain just as perplexed as publishers about the ups and downs of interactive media.