Editors from about 30 newspapers will visit CNN headquarters in Atlanta this week to learn more about the cable news network's wire service, CNN Wire, The New York Times reported Sunday. The service has been available for almost a month in trial version form, and the network hopes the less expensive service will attract some of the Associated Press's clients.

The CNN Newspaper Summit is "kind of a get-to-know-you," Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, told The New York Times. "The reality is we don't have a lot of relationships with newspapers."

CNN will have to "convince editors that it can offer something that is well outside its broadcast expertise -- which may not be a tough task given the dire circumstances newspapers face. In addition, a number of newspapers are unhappy with the cost of the AP," The New York Times article states. The AP is a non-profit corporation, owned by about 1,400 member newspapers.

Several newspapers have announced they will leave the AP because the cost is too high. However, CNN Wire would also compete with services such as Bloomberg News and Thomson Reuters.

Benjamin J. Marrison, editor of The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio, told The New York Times that he is keen to learn how CNN will expand its news-gathering operation of 3,000 journalists around the globe. "... we want to see how they intend to deploy those resources, how in tune they are with the needs of newspapers and their Web sites, and what kind of cooperative they intend to build," he said. The Dispatch has announced it end its agreement with the AP.