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• Associated Press and its role in the competitive newspaper-news industry
• The parties compete in gathering, distributing, and profitably publishing news in newspapers throughout the United States.
• The Associated Press is a cooperative organization.
• It is incorporated under New York’s Membership Corporations Law.
• Its members are proprietors or representatives of about 950 daily newspapers across the United States.
• The Associated Press gathers news and intelligence about current and recent events.
• It gathers information in all parts of the world.
• It uses various instrumentalities of its own.
• It exchanges information with its members.
• It also uses other appropriate means to gather information.
• The gathered information concerns events of interest to newspaper readers.
• The Associated Press distributes the information daily to its members for publication in their newspapers.