Details of CNN Wire emerging

The NYTimes has a write-up of the CNN Wire, which is designed to provide a lower-cost alternative to the Associated Press. This week CNN is holding a pitch session for editors from 30 or so newspapers including the Plain Dealer, which has been testing the CNN Wire in recent days (see one of those stories here.) So what does the AP think of this? “Breaking news is very, very expensive and if they have the resources to spend on it, we welcome them to the game,” said AP chief Tom Curley. “The current CNN wire, if you look at it truly is still, and remarkably, abysmally written,” he said. “However, they’re interviewing A.P. people, we know, and that can be transformed.” CNN.com (not CNN TV) plans to drop AP in January, reports the NYTimes. (Full disclosure: I work for msnbc.com, a client of AP.)

Update: Here’s the agenda of the event from E&P