Two main American newspaper chains, Gannett and McClatchy, plan to drastically curtail their enterprise relationships with The Related Press, which provides information experiences and pictures to retailers world wide.

Gannett, the most important newspaper firm in the USA and the writer of USA Immediately, mentioned on Tuesday that, beginning Monday, it could not use articles, photographs and movies from The A.P. in its a whole lot of publications.

“Between USA Immediately and our unbelievable community of greater than 200 newsrooms, we create extra journalism each day than The A.P.,” Kristin Roberts, the chief content material officer of Gannett, wrote in an organization memo.

Ms. Roberts famous that Gannett would proceed to make use of The A.P. for election information and its stylebook, which offers steering on language and journalistic practices. She added that Gannett had signed an settlement with a rival information company, Reuters, for international information “whereas we construct our capability.”

Lark-Marie Antón, a spokeswoman for Gannett, mentioned in an announcement that the choice “permits us to speculate additional in our newsrooms.”

McClatchy, which the hedge fund Chatham Asset Administration purchased out of chapter in 2020, advised its editors this week that it could cease utilizing some A.P. companies subsequent month. McClatchy operates about 30 newspapers, together with The Miami Herald and The Kansas Metropolis Star, in addition to a bureau in Washington, D.C.

In an electronic mail despatched on Monday, Kathy Vetter, McClatchy’s senior vice chairman of stories and viewers, mentioned that The A.P.’s feed would finish on March 29 and that no A.P. content material may very well be revealed after March 31. She mentioned, nonetheless, that McClatchy would proceed to make use of The A.P.’s election outcomes information.

“With this choice, we’ll not pay tens of millions for content material that serves lower than 1 p.c of our readers,” Ms. Vetter wrote within the electronic mail, which was seen by The New York Instances. “Most often now we have discovered replacements. Nonetheless, we’re nonetheless engaged on a common answer for state ‘wires’ content material.”

McClatchy didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Lauren Easton, a spokeswoman for The A.P., mentioned conversations with Gannett and McClatchy over their contracts “have been productive and are ongoing.”

“We respect that these are troublesome selections to make and deeply perceive the challenges the information business faces,” Ms. Easton mentioned in an announcement. “On the similar time, this might be a disservice to information customers throughout the U.S. who would not see fact-based journalism from The A.P.”

The A.P., which was based in 1846, has reporters in each state and almost 100 nations. It offers wire content material, together with articles, photographs and movies, to publications and broadcasters world wide, together with The New York Instances.

It additionally has a central function in U.S. election protection: Many main information organizations use its election information, and a few look ahead to The A.P. to call a race earlier than they report a winner.

The A.P. as soon as relied totally on licensing charges from newspapers however now has quite a lot of different income streams, together with a information web site, an e-commerce website, and software program and manufacturing companies. In response to an article on its web site, charges from U.S. newspapers account for roughly 10 p.c of The A.P.’s revenue.

“The lack of McClatchy and Gannett wouldn’t have a fabric influence on our general income,” Ms. Easton mentioned.