The Associated Press announced plans Monday to begin charging for access to its online content beginning Jan. 1, 2006. Editor and Publisher Online reports that AP president and CEO, Tom Curley, announced at a Newspaper Association of America conference that the news service has no choice but to begin charging for the re-purposing of their content, given the growing and prominent nature of the Internet and online news consumption today. “We must be able to preserve the value and enforce the rights of our intellectual property across the media spectrum,” said Curley. The shift in policy has not yet been detailed, but Curley suggested temporarily cutting back on some membership fee increases in order to offset the cost for newspapers and broadcasters who access AP content. The policy will include all AP products, such as stories, photographs and audio/video.

From Editor and Publisher Online: MediaNews, owner and operator of 50 newspapers and sites such as The Daily News of Los Angeles and The Denver Post, has partnered with Yahoo HotJobs in an effort to provide more targeted job advertising online. The deal synchronizes job ads on MediaNews Web sites with those of HotJobs, which allows for the targeting of a wider range of jobs at a localized level. “Our breadth of job seekers coupled with our searching and matching capabilities creates a more valuable experience for advertisers,” said Yahoo HotJobs executive vice president and general manager Dan Finnigan.