Associated Press

===Timeline===
* 1849: The Harbor News Association opened the first [[news bureau]] outside the United States in [[Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia|Halifax]], [[Nova Scotia]], to meet ships sailing from Europe before they reached dock in New York.
* 1876: [[Mark Kellogg (reporter)|Mark Kellogg]], a [[Stringer (journalism)|stringer]], was the first AP [[news correspondent]] to be killed while reporting the news, at the [[Battle of the Little Bighorn]].
* 1893: [[Melville E. Stone]] became the general manager of the reorganized the AP, a post he held until 1921. Under his leadership, the AP grew to be one of the world's most prominent news agencies.
* 1899: The AP used [[Guglielmo Marconi]]'s wireless [[Telegraphy|telegraph]] to cover the [[America's Cup]] yacht race off [[Sandy Hook, New Jersey|Sandy Hook]], [[New Jersey]], the first news test of the new technology.
* 1914: The AP introduced the [[teleprinter]], which transmitted directly to printers over telegraph wires. Eventually a worldwide network of 60-word-per-minute teleprinter machines is built.
* 1935: The AP initiated [[WirePhoto]], the world's first wire service for photographs. The first photograph to transfer over the network depicted an airplane crash in [[Morehouse, New York|Morehouse]], [[New York (state)|New York]], on [[New Year's Day]], 1935.
* 1938: The AP expanded new offices at [[50 Rockefeller Plaza]] (known as "50 Rock") under an agreement made as part of the [[construction of Rockefeller Center]] in New York City. The building would remain its headquarters for 66 years.<ref name="AP_PR">{{Cite press release|title=AP leaves 50 Rock for West 33rd Street Headquarters|website=Associated Press|date=2004-07-19|url=http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_071904.html|access-date=2009-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427134855/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_071904.html|archive-date=2009-04-27|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 1941: The AP expanded from print to radio broadcast news.
* {{anchor|Times Wide World Photo| Wide World Photo| Wide World News Photo Service}}1941: Wide World News Photo Service purchased from ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="NYT020116">{{cite news|author1=Rachel L. Swarns, Darcy Eveleigh and Damien Cave|title=Unpublished Black History|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history|access-date=February 1, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=February 1, 2016|quote=The Times's picture agency, Wide World News Photo Service, which had staff members in London, Berlin and elsewhere, was sold to The Associated Press in 1941.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201021932/http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history|archive-date=February 1, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=WIDE WORLD, INC., SOLD TO THE A.P.; News Photo Service in Western Hemisphere Will Be Turned Over to New Owners Friday COOPER TELLS OF PLANS Purchase in Line With Policy of Accelerating Collection and Output of Pictures |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/26/archives/wide-world-inc-sold-to-the-ap-news-photo-service-in-western.html |access-date=30 April 2023 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |agency=Associated Press |date=26 July 1941 |archive-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430051853/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/26/archives/wide-world-inc-sold-to-the-ap-news-photo-service-in-western.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1943: The AP sends [[Ruth Cowan Nash]] to cover the deployment of the [[Women's Army Corps|Women's Army Auxiliary Corps]] to [[Algeria]]. Nash is the first American woman war correspondent.<ref name="GOTOWAR">[https://niemanreports.org/articles/go-to-war-i-did-and-at-considerable-trouble/ "Go to War I Did, and at Considerable Trouble"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726104418/https://niemanreports.org/articles/go-to-war-i-did-and-at-considerable-trouble/ |date=July 26, 2020 }} Ramirez, Maria. Nieman Reports, Nieman Foundation at Harvard.</ref>
* 1945: AP [[war correspondent]] [[Joseph Morton (correspondent)|Joseph Morton]] was executed along with nine [[Office of Strategic Services|OSS]] men and four British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agents by the Germans at [[Mauthausen concentration camp]]. Morton was the only [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] correspondent to be executed by the [[Axis Powers|Axis]] during [[World War II]]. That same year, AP [[Paris]] bureau chief [[Edward Kennedy (journalist)|Edward Kennedy]] defied an Allied headquarters [[news blackout]] to report [[Nazi Germany]]'s surrender, touching off a bitter episode that led to his eventual dismissal by the AP. Kennedy maintains that he reported only what German radio already had broadcast.
* 1951: AP war correspondent [[Prague]] bureau chief [[William N. Oatis]] was arrested for [[espionage]] by the Communist government of [[Czechoslovakia]]. He was not released until 1953.
* 1974: The AP launches the Associated Press Radio Network headquartered in Washington, D.C.
* 1994: The AP launches [[Associated Press Television News|APTV]], a global video news gathering agency, headquartered in London.
* 2004: The AP moves its headquarters from 50 Rock to 450 West 33rd Street, New York City.<ref name="AP_PR"/>
* 2006: The AP joins [[YouTube]].
* 2008: The AP launched AP Mobile (initially known as the AP Mobile News Network), a multimedia news portal that gives users news they can choose and provides anytime access to international, national and local news. The AP was the first to debut a dedicated iPhone application in June 2008 on stage at Apple's WWDC event. The app offered AP's own worldwide coverage of [[breaking news]], sports, entertainment, politics and business as well as content from more than 1,000 AP members and [[third-party source]]s.<ref name="anniversary">Associated Press (2009-05-21). [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html "AP Mobile rings in one-year anniversary"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219092206/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html |date=February 19, 2010 }}, ''AP'', Press Release.</ref>
*2008: The AP opens its Pyongyang bureau.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jean H. Lee|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jean-h-lee|access-date=2021-11-13|publisher=Wilson Center|archive-date=November 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113234604/https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jean-h-lee|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2010: The AP launched multi-device World Cup Soccer Applications providing real-time news coverage of the 2010 World Cup on desktop, Apple and Android devices.
* 2010: AP earnings fall 65% from 2008 to just $8.8{{nbsp}}million. The AP also announced that it would have posted a loss of $4.4{{nbsp}}million had it not liquidated its German-language news service for $13.2{{nbsp}}million.<ref name="Media Post">{{cite web |title=Associated Press Reports Narrow 2009 Profit|publisher=Media Post|date=2010-04-30|url= http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_companies/associated_press_reports_narrowed_2009_profit_160099.asp|access-date=2010-04-30| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100504052734/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_companies/associated_press_reports_narrowed_2009_profit_160099.asp| archive-date= 4 May 2010 | url-status= live}}</ref>
* 2011: AP revenue dropped $14.7{{nbsp}}million in 2010. 2010 revenue totaled $631{{nbsp}}million, a decline of 7% from the previous year. The AP rolled out price cuts designed to help newspapers and broadcasters cope with declining revenue.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 April 2011|title=AP loses $14.7M in 2010 as revenue falls 7 percent|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-loses-147m-in-2010-as-revenue-falls-7-percent/|access-date=13 January 2021|website=The Seattle Times|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226014337/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-loses-147m-in-2010-as-revenue-falls-7-percent/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* 2012: [[Gary B. Pruitt]] succeeded [[Tom Curley]] to become president and CEO. Pruitt is the 13th leader of the AP in its 166-year history.<ref>{{cite news| title= Gary Pruitt, of McClatchy, to become new president and CEO of The Associated Press| url= http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2012/gary-pruitt-of-mcclatchy-to-become-new-president-and-ceo-of-the-associated-press|agency= Associated Press| access-date= 14 December 2012| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121214084533/http://ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/Gary-Pruitt-of-McClatchy-to-become-new-president-and-CEO-of-The-Associated-Press| archive-date= 14 December 2012| url-status= live}}</ref>
* 2016: The AP Reports that income dropped to $1.6{{nbsp}}million from $183.6{{nbsp}}million in 2015. The 2015 profit figure was bolstered by a one-time, $165{{nbsp}}million tax benefit.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newspaper decline continues to weigh on AP earnings |url=https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=2018-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055350/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |archive-date=2018-07-18 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2017: The AP moved its headquarters to [[200 Liberty Street]], New York City.
* 2018: The AP unveiled AP Votecast to replace [[exit polls]] for the 2018 US midterm elections.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://blog.ap.org/products-and-services/ap-votecast-debuts-tuesday |title=AP VoteCast debuts Tuesday |website=Associated Press Blog |last=Easton |first=Lauren |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153234/https://blog.ap.org/products-and-services/ap-votecast-debuts-tuesday |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>