Chicago - Tribune (NYSE: TXA), the Chicago-based newspaper publisher that owns The Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, has become the first major newspaper chain to give notice that it will drop the Associated Press wire service, Editor & Publisher reported.

The two-year notice follows the AP's plans to implement a controversial new rate structure beginning next year.

Tribune, which owns nine daily papers, including The Daily Press of Newport News, Va., joins several other newspapers that have decided to cancel the AP in the past several months.

Editor & Publisher said that the Newark Star-Ledger one day last month published its entire newspaper without AP content in an effort to gauge the effects of not using the wire service's numerous news and feature stories.

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