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Wednesday 06 July 2022
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AAP closes after 85 years  

By Mark Tronson - Press Service International
Photo - Mark Tronson with the Dallas Cowboys after the Olympics

26 June - AAP - Australian Associated Press closes  -  the word closes needs to be in big print - AAP to CLOSE 26 June

AAP for decades (85 years) sent out articles about political, sport, social and international news which regional and country newspapers picked up - often the major media did not send someone to an event and themselves picked up the AAP.

The ABC announced about 200 jobs will be lost.

Digital publishers, including the Guardian and Daily Mail, rely on AAP for much of their breaking news content and it is understood they were not informed of the changes ahead of time. Those publishers are estimated to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to AAP.

Guardian journalist Calla Wahlquist said on Twitter: "One of the reasons places like Guardian Australia have time to do investigations is because AAP covers the basics."

AAP is also Facebook's fact-checker, a role which it took on in mid-2019. The future of that arrangement is not clear.

The company posted a profit in 2019 after a major restructure, with Mr Davidson assuring it would be the last of the major editorial redundancy rounds for the news wire service (AAP Chair).

Photo  -   Mark Tronson’s five hockey books

AAP family

I wrote ‘field hockey’ for AAP from the Olympics. World Cups, Australian Championships, Champions Trophies …..

AAP circulated ‘around the world’ my now famous 1984 Olympic hockey article on how the US journalists rephrased all the field hockey terms into ice hockey terminology - tender for goalkeeper, puck for ball, offensive for attack etc etc.

Indian and Pakistani newspapers sold out as everyone (hockey lovers) were besotted with such a news item. Pakistan won the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic ‘Gold Medal’. 

Photo  -   Ramon Williams  

Ramon Williams

Ramon Williams was the AAP equivalent on religious media news in Australia for over five decades. He has been contacted by AAP and will retain his Medianet account.

From the 1970’s when I initiated my Christian news writing - Ramon Williams circulated them around the world - year after year after year – Ramon undertook a mammoth task telling others what the Lord has done.

My international hockey writing (including 5 books on hockey) and as The Australian newspaper hockey writer (stringer) for 24 years to 1994  -  gave me an idea how to catch readers attention. Ramon Williams appreciated this.

The Illawarra Mercury Chief of Staff Peter Newell wrote me a reference when I moved from Wollongong to Sydney having written his hockey from 1972-76  -  “Mark Tronson has a flair for news angels”. Ramon Williams recognised this too.

Now we’re helping young people write for Christian Today (10 years now) in the young writer ministry “Press Service International”. Last year the Australasian Religious Press Association awarded this young writer program their premier award ‘The Gutenberg’ for 10 years promoting young writers.

Photo  -   IOC Religious Service in Vancouver in 2009 meeting with Olympic Village managers

Dr Mark Tronson  -  a 4 min video

https://youtu.be/vxhhVbRmUlM

Chairman – Well-Being Australia

Baptist Minister 45 years

  • 1984  -  Australian cricket team chaplain 17 years (Ret)
  • 2001  -  Life After Cricket (18 years Ret)
  • 2009 -   Olympic Ministry Medal – presented by Carl Lewis
  • 2019  -  The Gutenberg  -  (ARPA Christian Media premier award)  

Gutenberg video  -  2min 14sec

Married to Delma for 45 years with 4 children and 6 grand children

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