AP suspends coverage of Australia, WI series
Published:Monday | November 23, 2009 | 12:44 PM
The Associated Press (AP) and two other news agencies will not cover the three-Test series between hosts Australia and West Indies because of a dispute over conditions for accreditations imposed by Cricket Australia.
The series will start on Thursday in Brisbane.
It represents the second consecutive international season that the Associated Press has suspended coverage of cricket in Australia.
The Associated Press was joined by Reuters and Agence France-Presse.
The news agencies also refused to cover the 2008-2009 series in Australia involving South Africa and New Zealand.
A similar dispute in the 2007-08 season between Cricket Australia and the three agencies was settled after coverage was suspended for the first test match between Australia and Sri Lanka.
Cricket Australia and news agencies have been discussing the latest accreditation terms for several months.
Cricket Australia has demanded the right to see the agencies\' lists of clients and to veto any they decide should not receive pictures and text coverage of the tests.
It also wants to impose limits on the number and frequency of text and photo updates for Web sites and on the duration of images in photographic archives.