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Do not fill this in! {{Short description|American not-for-profit news agency}} {{About-distinguish-text|the American news agency|the [[Australian Associated Press]] or the [[Associated Press of Pakistan]]}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox company | name = The Associated Press | logo = Associated Press logo 2012.svg | type = [[Nonprofit organization|Not-for-profit]] [[cooperative]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ap.org/about/our-people/leadership-team |title=Leadership Team |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=1 October 2021 |archive-date=March 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314182613/http://ap.org/company/board-of-directors |url-status=live }}</ref> | industry = [[News media]] | foundation = {{Start date and age|1846|05|22}}<ref name="origin">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/documents-shed-new-light-on-birth-of-ap-wire-older-than-originally-thought/ |title=Documents Shed New Light on Birth of AP; Wire Older Than Originally Thought |date=31 January 2006 |magazine=[[Editor & Publisher]] |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728032840/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/documents-shed-new-light-on-birth-of-ap-wire-older-than-originally-thought/ |archive-date=28 July 2018 }}</ref> | location_city = [[200 Liberty Street]], {{nowrap|[[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.}} | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = {{unbulleted list|Steven R. Swartz ([[Chairperson|chairman]])|[[Daisy Veerasingham]] ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[chief executive officer]])}} | products = [[News agency|Wire service]] | revenue = {{loss}} [[United States dollar|US$]]510.135 million (2017)<ref name="pdf">{{cite news | title=Consolidated Financial Statements | publisher=Associated Press | date=April 2015 | url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2017/ap-financials-2017.pdf| access-date=2016-06-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615091057/http://www.ap.org/annual-report/2015/AssociatedPress_2015FinancialStatements.pdf | archive-date=2016-06-15 | url-status=live }}</ref> | net_income = {{loss}} US$-73.966 million (2017)<ref name="pdf"/> | members = | num_employees = 3,300 | homepage = {{unbulleted list|{{URL|https://www.apnews.com|apnews.com}}|{{URL|https://www.ap.org|ap.org}} (Corporate)}} }} '''The<!-- keep the "The" bolded, as it is part of the official name. --> Associated Press''' ('''AP''')<ref>{{cite web |title=Associated Press, The |url=https://www.apstylebook.com/ap_stylebook/associated-press-the |website=[[AP Stylebook]] |publisher=The Associated Press |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref> is an American [[not-for-profit organization|not-for-profit]] [[news agency]] headquartered in [[New York City]]. Founded in 1846, it operates as a [[cooperative]], [[unincorporated association]], and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since the award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 58 [[Pulitzer Prize]]s, including 35 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used ''[[AP Stylebook]]'', its [[AP poll]]s tracking [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA sports]], and its election polls and results during [[Elections in the United States|US elections]]. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf|title=2016 Consolidated Financial Statements|date=April 5, 2017|website=Associated Press|access-date=March 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172429/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP operates 235 [[news bureau]]s in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic.<ref>{{cite web |title=AP by the Numbers |url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2022-report/ap-by-the-numbers/ |website=Associated Press |access-date=March 21, 2024}}</ref> It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their [[local news]] reports. ==History== [[File:the associated press building in new york city.jpg|thumb|upright|Logo on the former AP building in New York City]] {{Further|Telegraph in United States history#Newspaper users}} The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in [[New York City]] to share the cost of transmitting news of the [[Mexican–American War]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/15108618|title=Network effects|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221035608/http://www.economist.com/node/15108618|archive-date=2018-02-21|url-status=live}}</ref> The venture was organized by [[Moses Yale Beach]] (1800–68), second publisher of ''[[The Sun (New York)|The Sun]]'', joined by the ''[[New York Herald]]'', the ''[[New York Courier and Enquirer]]'', ''[[The Journal of Commerce]]'', and the ''[[New York Evening Express]]''.<ref>Beach, Stanley, [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/850 Archives at Yale, Stanley Yale Beach papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331233228/https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/850 |date=March 31, 2023 }}, Number: GEN MSS 802, 1911-1948</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/06/26/the-birth-of-atari-modern-computer-design-and-the-software-industry-this-week-in-tech-history/|title=The Birth of Atari, Modern Computer Design, And The Software Industry: This Week In Tech History|last=Press|first=Gil|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221040359/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/06/26/the-birth-of-atari-modern-computer-design-and-the-software-industry-this-week-in-tech-history/|archive-date=2018-02-21|url-status=live}}</ref> Some historians<ref name=Tribune>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&q=tribune+associated+press+1849&pg=PA93|title=The Nation's Newsbrokers: The formative years, from pretelegraphs to 1865|last=Schwarzlose|first=Richard Allen|date=1989|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-0818-9|page=93|access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104124424/https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=tribune%20associated%20press%201849|archive-date=January 4, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> believe that the ''[[New-York Tribune]]'' joined at this time; documents show it was a member in 1849. ''[[The New York Times]]'' became a member in September 1851. Initially known as the New York Associated Press (NYAP), the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press (1862), which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and [[price setting]] practices. An investigation completed in 1892 by [[Victor Lawson]], editor and publisher of the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]'', revealed that several principals of the NYAP had entered into a secret agreement with United Press, a rival organization, to share NYAP news and the profits of reselling it. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, the Western Associated Press was incorporated in Illinois as the Associated Press. A 1900 [[Illinois Supreme Court]] decision (''Inter Ocean Publishing Co. v. Associated Press'') holding that the AP was a [[public utility]] and operating in [[restraint of trade]] resulted in the AP's move from Chicago to New York City, where corporation laws were more favorable to cooperatives.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|title=International News Agencies: A History|last=Palmer|first=Michael B.|date=2019|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3-030-31177-3|page=69|access-date=3 June 2020|archive-date=March 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164823/https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Melville Stone]], who had founded the ''[[Chicago Daily News]]'' in 1875, served as AP general manager from 1893 to 1921. The cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who served from 1925 to 1948 and who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and (after [[World War II]]), the Middle East. He introduced the "telegraph typewriter" or teletypewriter into newsrooms in 1914.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=1914 is nine years before Cooper's term started}} In 1935, the AP launched the [[Wirephoto]] network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave the AP a major advantage over other news media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually the AP had its network across the whole United States.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA392 |title=Wire That Photo |journal=Popular Mechanics |date=July 1937 |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref> In 1945, the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] held in ''[[Associated Press v. United States]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/ |title=Associated PRess v. United States, 326 U.S. 1 (1945) |date=1945 |website=Justia |access-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505000929/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/ |archive-date=May 5, 2022}}</ref> that the AP had been violating the [[Sherman Antitrust Act]] by prohibiting member newspapers from selling or providing news to nonmember organizations as well as making it very difficult for nonmember newspapers to join the AP.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states |title=Associated Press v. United States (1945) |last=Vile |first=John R |website=The First Amendment Encyclopedia |access-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526215914/https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states |archive-date=May 26, 2022}}</ref> The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival [[United Press International]], headed by [[Hugh Baillie]] from 1935 to 1955.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} The AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations; it created its own radio network in 1974. In 1994, it established APTV, a global video newsgathering agency. APTV merged with WorldWide Television News in 1998 to form [[Associated Press Television News|APTN]], which provides video to international broadcasters and websites. In 2004, the AP moved its headquarters from its long time home at [[50 Rockefeller Plaza]] to [[450 West 33rd Street]] in Manhattan. In 2019, AP had more than 240 bureaus globally.<ref name="bythenumbers2019">{{Cite web |title=AP by the numbers |website=Associated Press |date=2019 |access-date=10 September 2020 |url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214065039/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers }}</ref> Its mission—"to gather with economy and efficiency an accurate and impartial report of the news"—has not changed since its founding, but digital technology has made the distribution of the AP news report an interactive endeavor between the AP and its 1,400 U.S. newspaper members as well as broadcasters, international subscribers, and online customers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}} The AP began diversifying its news gathering capabilities. By 2007 the AP was generating only about 30% of its revenue from United States newspapers, and by 2024, this had declined to 10%.<ref name=mcclatchy/> 37% came from the global broadcast customers, 15% from online ventures and 18% came from international newspapers and from photography.<ref>{{cite news |title=Down On The Wire |url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html |quote=Last year, AP generated only about 30% of its revenue from U.S. newspapers. The rest came from global broadcast customers (37%), online ventures (15%) and other revenue sources, such as international clients and photography, (18%). Forbes.com is a customer of AP |work=[[Forbes]]|access-date=2009-04-09|date=2008-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331174432/http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html |archive-date=31 March 2009 |url-status=live |first=Louis |last=Hau}}</ref> In March 2024, [[Gannett]], the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation, announced that effective March 25, 2024, it would no longer use content from the AP. A spokesperson for AP said that they were "shocked and disappointed" by this development.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Korach |first1=Natalie |title=USA Today Publisher Gannett to Drop Associated Press Content Across All Publications |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usa-today-publisher-gannett-drop-172126799.html |access-date=March 19, 2024 |publisher=Yahoo News |date=March 19, 2024}}</ref> Newspaper chain [[McClatchy]] announced that it would also stop using some AP services. Gannett and McClatchy will both continue to use AP's election results data.<ref name=mcclatchy>{{cite news |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |last2=Robertson |first2=Katie |title=Gannett and McClatchy Cut Back Relationship With A.P. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/media/gannett-mcclatchy-ap-associated-press.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |work=New York Times |date=March 19, 2024}}</ref> ===Web resources=== The AP's multi-topic structure has resulted in web portals such as [[Yahoo!]] and [[MSN]] posting its articles, often relying on the AP as their first source for news coverage of breaking news items. This and the constant updating evolving stories require has had a major impact on the AP's public image and role, giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. In 2007, Google announced that it was paying to receive AP content, to be displayed in [[Google News]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Google News Becomes A Publisher |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |quote='Because the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, U.K. Press Association and the Canadian Press don't have a consumer Web site where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers,' Josh Cohen, business product manager for Google News, explained in a blog post. |work=[[Information Week]] |date=August 31, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627154658/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |archive-date=June 27, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute.<ref>{{cite news |title=Google Stops Hosting New AP Content |url=http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |access-date=2010-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112081900/http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |archive-date=12 January 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Google, AP reach deal for Google News content|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|publisher=[[CNET]]|date=August 30, 2010|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200432/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> A 2017 study by [[NewsWhip]] revealed that AP content was more engaged with on [[Facebook]] than content from any individual English-language publisher.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|title=AP content drives more Facebook engagements than individual publishers in June, July|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407053939/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|archive-date=2018-04-07|url-status=live}}</ref> ===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> ==Governance== The AP is governed by an elected [[board of directors]].<ref name="board">{{cite web |title=Facts & Figures: AP Board of Directors |publisher=Associated Press |url=http://www.ap.org/Company/Board-of-Directors |url-status=live |access-date=November 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314182613/http://ap.org/company/board-of-directors |archive-date=2012-03-14}}</ref> Since April 2022, the chairperson is [[Gracia C. Martore]], former president and CEO of [[Tegna, Inc.]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=AP announces 1 director, 4 incumbents at annual meeting |url=https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-1-director-4-incumbents-at-annual-meeting/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=The Associated Press |language=en-US}}</ref> ==Election polls== The AP is the only organization that collects and verifies election results in every city and county across the United States, including races for the U.S. president, the Senate and House of Representatives, governor as well as other statewide offices.<ref name=understanding>{{cite web |title=Understanding the Election |url=https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election |website=Associated Press |access-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223204033/https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election |url-status=live }}</ref> Major news outlets rely on the polling data and results provided by the Associated Press before declaring a winner in major political races, particularly the presidential election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sadler |first1=Megan |title=How the Associated Press calls election races and ensures vote count accuracy |url=https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/ |access-date=November 15, 2020 |work=[[WVLT-TV]] |agency=Associated Press |date=November 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110181846/https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In declaring the winners, the AP has historically relied on a robust network of local reporters with first-hand knowledge of assigned territories who also have long-standing relationships with county clerks as well as other local officials. Moreover, the AP monitors and gathers data from county websites and electronic feeds provided by states. The research team further verifies the results by considering demographics, number of absentee ballots, and other political issues that may have an effect on the final results.<ref name=understanding/> In 2018, the AP introduced a new system called AP VoteCast, which was developed together with [[NORC at the University of Chicago]] in order to further improve the reliability of its data and overcome biases of its legacy [[exit poll]].<ref>{{cite web |title=AP VoteCast |url=https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about |website=Associated Press |access-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223210751/https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about |url-status=live }}</ref> Recognized for its integrity and accuracy, the organization has collected and published presidential election data since 1848.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Storey |first1=Kate |title=How the Associated Press Plans to Determine the Winner of This Year's Election |url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/ |access-date=November 15, 2020 |work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]] |date=October 29, 2020 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130143928/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/ |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 2016 election, the AP was 100% accurate in calling the president and congressional races in every state.<ref name=understanding/> ==Sports polls== {{main|AP Poll}} The AP conducts polls for numerous [[college athletics|college sports]] in the [[United States]]. The AP college football rankings were created in 1936, and began including the top 25 teams in 1989. Since 1969, the final poll of each season has been released after all bowl games have been played.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html|title=The best and worst of LSU's AP preseason poll history|work=NOLA.com|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225231/https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP released its all-time Top 25 in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakewilliams3012/2016/08/21/what-the-last-five-seasons-of-the-ap-poll-say-about-trending-teams-in-college-football/|title=What The Last Five Seasons Of The AP Poll Say About Trending Teams In College Football|last=Williams|first=Blake|work=Forbes|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720200305/https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakewilliams3012/2016/08/21/what-the-last-five-seasons-of-the-ap-poll-say-about-trending-teams-in-college-football/|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> {{as of|2017}}, 22 different programs had finished in the number one spot of the poll since its inception.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2017-08-21/college-football-rankings-who-has-been-no-1-ap-preseason-poll-most|title=College football rankings: Who has been No. 1 in the AP preseason poll most often and how did they finish?|date=2017-08-21|publisher=NCAA|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195201/https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2017-08-21/college-football-rankings-who-has-been-no-1-ap-preseason-poll-most|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In the pre-bowl game determination era, the AP poll was often used as the distinction for a national champion in football. The AP college basketball poll has been used as a guide for which teams deserve national attention. The AP first began its poll of college basketball teams in 1949, and has since conducted over 1,100 polls. The college basketball poll started with 20 teams and was reduced to 10 during the 1960-61 college basketball season. It returned to 20 teams in 1968-69 and expanded to 25 beginning in 1989–90. The final poll for each season is released prior to the conclusion of the [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA tournament]], so all data includes regular season games only. In 2017, The AP released a list of the Top 100 teams of all time. The poll counted poll appearances (one point) and No. 1 rankings (two points) to rank each team.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 29, 2017 |title=AP Top 25 polls highlight Top 100 all-time in college basketball |work=The Denver Post |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225211/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/ |archive-date=July 20, 2018}}</ref> ==Sports awards== ===Baseball=== The AP began its [[Major League Baseball]] Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league.<ref name=APManagerOfYr>[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml AP Manager of the Year Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201204555/http://baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml |date=February 1, 2010 }}. Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29. Although the award began in 1959, AP gave a "manager of the year" award in 1950 to Eddie Sawyer of the Philadelphia Phillies.{{Cite news|title=Eddie Sawyer Honored in Baseball Vote|work=Prescott Evening Courier|date=November 8, 1950|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502|page=Section 2, Page 1|access-date=2010-09-16|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227110618/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502}}</ref> From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.<ref>In 1959, when the AP began its Manager of the Year Award for a manager in each league, [[The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award|''The Sporting News'' Manager of the Year Award]] (begun in 1936) was for one manager in all of MLB. In 1983, MLB began its own [[Manager of the Year Award]], for a manager in each league. The following year (1984) the AP changed its award to one in all of MLB. In 1986, ''The Sporting News'' changed its award to one for each league.</ref> The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.<ref name=APManagerOfYr/> ===Basketball=== Every year, the AP releases the names of the winners of its [[Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year|AP College Basketball Player of the Year]] and [[Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year|AP College Basketball Coach of the Year]] awards. It also honors a group of [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] players. ===Football=== * [[AP NFL Coach of the Year]] * [[AP NFL Most Valuable Player]] * [[AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year]] * [[AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year]] * [[AP NFL Rookie of the Year]] * [[AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year]] ==Associated Press Television News== {{Main|Associated Press Television News}} [[File:APTNheadquarter.jpg|thumb|The APTN Building in London]] In 1994, London-based Associated Press Television (APTV) was founded to provide agency news material to television broadcasters.<ref name="Reuters">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|title=A.P. Buys Worldwide Television News|agency=Reuters|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 3, 1998 |access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709100154/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|archive-date=2018-07-09|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1998, the AP purchased Worldwide Television News (WTN) from the ABC News division of [[The Walt Disney Company]], Nine Network Australia and ITN London.<ref name="Reuters"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=3 June 1998|title=A.P. Buys Worldwide Television News|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|access-date=13 January 2021|website=The New York Times|archive-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709100154/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP publishes 70,000 videos and 6,000 hours of live video per year, {{as of|2016|lc=y}}. The agency also provides five simultaneous live video channels, AP Direct via satellite for broadcasters, and four live channels on AP Live Choice for digital publishers. The AP was the first news agency to launch a live video news service in 2003.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/ap-experiments-with-live-streams-as-appetite-for-up-to-the-minute-video-grows-/s2/a601343/|title=AP experiments with live streams as appetite for up-to-the-minute video grows|date=2016-01-13|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225134/https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/ap-experiments-with-live-streams-as-appetite-for-up-to-the-minute-video-grows-/s2/a601343/|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> == AP Stylebook == {{Excerpt|AP Stylebook|only=paragraphs}} ==Litigation and controversies== {{criticism section|date=September 2022}} ===Kidnapping of Tina Susman=== In 1994, [[Tina Susman]] was on her fourth trip to [[Somalia]], reporting for the AP. She was reporting on U.S. [[peacekeeping]] troops leaving the country. Somali rebels outnumbered her bodyguards in [[Mogadishu]],<ref name=Oprah>{{cite news|url=https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|title=Adventurous Thinkers|last=Burford|first=Michelle|publisher=O, The Oprah Magazine|date=July 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203194721/https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|url-status=live}}</ref> dragged her from her car in broad daylight,<ref name=AJR>{{cite news|url=https://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1281&id=1281|title=When a Journalist is Kidnapped |date=September 1994|last=Callahan|first=Christopher|publisher=[[Philip Merrill College of Journalism]]}}</ref> and held her for 20 days. She told ''[[Quill (magazine)|The Quill]]'' that she believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there.<ref name=Q02>{{cite news|url=https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|last=Dietrich|first=Heidi|title=Women in War Zones|publisher=The Quill|date=20 November 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204191438/https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP had requested news organizations including ''The New York Times'', the ''[[Chicago Tribune]],'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]'' to suppress the story to discourage the emboldening of the kidnappers.<ref name=AJR/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|title=In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists|work=The New York Times|first=William|last=Glaberson|date=August 8, 1994|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521121732/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Christopher Newton=== In September 2002, [[Washington, D.C.]] bureau reporter Christopher Newton, an AP reporter since 1994, was fired after he was accused of fabricating sources since 2000, including at least 40 people and organizations. Prior to his firing, Newton had been focused on writing about federal law-enforcement while based at the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]]. Some of the nonexistent agencies quoted in his stories included "Education Alliance", the "Institute for Crime and Punishment in Chicago", "Voice for the Disabled", and "People for Civil Rights".<ref>{{cite news| url = http://www.slate.com/?id=2073304 |title=Fib Newton | date=October 29, 2002 | work=[[Slate.com]] |access-date=April 16, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508022026/http://www.slate.com/?id=2073304| archive-date=May 8, 2008 | url-status=live}}</ref> ===FBI impersonation case=== In 2007, an [[FBI]] agent working in Seattle impersonated an AP journalist and infected the computer of a 15-year-old suspect with a malicious surveillance software.<ref name="LA Times">{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Mary Ann |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html |title=Associated Press sues after FBI impersonates journalist in sting operation |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 27, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101449/http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="huff post">{{cite news |last=Reilly |first=Ryan |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7 |title=An FBI Agent Did A Pretty Terrible Job Of Pretending To Be A Journalist |work=HuffPost |date=September 15, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306211618/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7 |archive-date=March 6, 2018 }}</ref> The incident sparked a strongly worded statement from the AP demanding the bureau never impersonate a member of the news media again.<ref name="Associated Press">{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Eric |url=https://apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4 |title=AP demands FBI never again impersonate journalist |work=Associated Press |date=November 10, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101310/https://apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref> In September 2016 the incident resulted in a report by the Justice Department, which the AP said "effectively condone[d] the FBI's impersonation".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Colford|first=Paul|date=September 15, 2016|title=AP statement on inspector general report|url=https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Associated Press - Blog|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515130517/https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="washington post">{{cite news|last=Wemple|first=Erik|date=September 15, 2016|title=Justice Department report 'effectively condone[s]' FBI impersonation incident|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/15/ap-justice-department-report-effectively-condones-fbi-impersonation-incident/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101226/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/15/ap-justice-department-report-effectively-condones-fbi-impersonation-incident/|archive-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> In December 2017, following a US court appearance, a judge ruled in favor of the AP in a lawsuit against the FBI for fraudulently impersonating a member of the news media.<ref name="washington examiner">{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Kelly |url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647 |title=Appeals Court sides with Associated Press in lawsuit against FBI |work=Washington Examiner |date=December 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101355/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }}</ref><ref name="chiacagotribune">{{cite news |last=Gresko |first=Jessica |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html |title=US court hears case involving impersonation of AP journalist |work=Chicago Tribune |date=November 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101405/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2017 |access-date=January 19, 2019 }}</ref> === Fair-use controversy === In June 2008, the AP sent numerous [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act|DMCA]] take-down demands and threatened legal action against several [[blog]]s. The AP contended that the internet blogs were violating the AP's [[copyright]] by linking to AP material and using headlines and short summaries in those links. Many bloggers and experts noted that the use of the AP news fell squarely under commonly accepted internet practices and within [[fair use|fair-use]] standards.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |title = AP's Fair Use Challenge (Harvard Law) |work = Berkman Center for Internet and Society |date = 2008-06-17 |access-date = 2014-06-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110512044752/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |archive-date = 2011-05-12 }}</ref> Others noted and demonstrated that the AP routinely takes similar excerpts from other sources, often without attribution or licenses. The AP responded that it was defining standards regarding citations of AP news.<ref>{{cite news |title = The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | quote= The Associated Press...said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright. | work =[[The New York Times]]| date = June 16, 2008 |access-date=2009-04-09 |first=Saul |last=Hansell| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090409031736/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | archive-date= 9 April 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> === Shepard Fairey === In March 2009, the AP counter-sued artist [[Shepard Fairey]] over [[Obama HOPE poster|his famous image of Barack Obama]], saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated [[Copyright law of the United States|copyright laws]] and signaled a threat to [[journalism]]. Fairey had sued the AP the previous month over his artwork, titled "Obama Hope" and "Obama Progress", arguing that he did not violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image. The artwork, based on an April 2006 picture taken for the AP by [[Mannie Garcia]], was a popular image during the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]] and now hangs in the [[National Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]] in Washington, D.C. According to the AP lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Fairey knowingly "misappropriated The AP's rights in that image". The suit asked the court to award the AP profits made off the image and damages. Fairey said he looked forward to "upholding the [[Freedom of speech|free expression]] rights at stake here" and disproving the AP's accusations.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}} In January 2011 this suit was settled with neither side declaring their position to be wrong but agreeing to share reproduction rights and profits from Fairey's work.<ref name=NPRFaireyvAPSettlement>{{cite news|last=Memmott|first=Mark|title=Shepard Fairey And AP Settle Copyright Dispute Over 'Hope' Poster|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster|access-date=31 August 2012|work=NPR|date=11 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623172550/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster|archive-date=23 June 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> === All Headline News === In January 2008, the AP sued competitor [[All Headline News]] (AHN) claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and a contentious "quasi-property" right to facts.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Schonfeld|first=Erick|title=Hot News: The AP Is Living In The Last Century|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html|date=February 22, 2009|access-date=April 25, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604165028/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last= Anderson | first= Nate | title= Who owns the facts? The AP and the "hot news" controversy | work= Ars Technica | url= https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars | access-date=June 14, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111231024500/http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars | archive-date=2011-12-31 | url-status= live }}</ref> The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without permission and without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by the AP, a majority of the lawsuit was dismissed.<ref>{{Cite court|litigants=The Associated Press v. All Headline News Corp.|vol=08|reporter=Civ.|opinion=323|court=United States District Court, Southern District of New York |date=February 17, 2009|url= https://www.scribd.com/doc/12637101/Decision-AP-Hot-News-Doctrine}}</ref> The case has been dismissed and both parties settled.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf |title=Citizen Media Law Project |access-date=June 4, 2014}}</ref> ===Hoax tweet and flash crash===<!-- [[AP Tweet Flash Crash of 2013]] and [[2013 Flash Crash]] redirect here --> On April 23, 2013, hackers posted a tweet to AP's [[Twitter]] account about fictional attacks on the [[White House]], falsely claiming that President [[Barack Obama|Obama]] had been injured.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-04-23 |title=AP Twitter account hacked in fake 'White House blasts' post |language=en-GB |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21508660 |access-date=2023-08-19}}</ref> The hoax caused a [[flash crash]] on the American stock markets, with the [[Dow Jones Industrial Average|Dow Jones index]] briefly falling by 143 points.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Heidi |last2=Roberts |first2=Dan |date=2013-04-23 |title=AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> ===Justice Department subpoena of phone records=== {{main|2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters}} On May 13, 2013, the AP announced telephone records for 20 of their reporters during a two-month period in 2012, had been [[subpoenaed]] by the [[U.S. Justice Department]] and described these acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations.<ref name=TTSanchez>{{cite news |last=Sanchez |first=Raf |title=US Justice Department secretly seizes Associated Press phone records |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |work=The Telegraph |access-date=May 15, 2013 |location=London |date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514070630/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |archive-date=May 14, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=TG130513>{{cite news|title=US government secretly obtained Associated Press phone records|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|work=The Guardian|date=15 May 2013|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927231734/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP reported that the Justice Department would not say why it sought the records, but sources stated that the [[United States Attorney for the District of Columbia]]'s office was conducting a criminal investigation into a May 7, 2012 AP story about a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] operation that prevented a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on a commercial flight.<ref name=RC-Ingram>{{cite news|last=Ingram|first=David|title=Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|work=Reuters Canada|access-date=15 May 2013|date=2013-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084725/http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|archive-date=29 May 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the AP, instead going to their phone providers, including [[Verizon Wireless]].<ref name=verizonslate>{{cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |title=Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters' Phone Records to Feds |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |work=Slate |access-date=20 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519142639/http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |archive-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[U.S. Attorney General]] [[Eric Holder]] testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee that he recused himself from the leak investigations to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Holder said his Deputy Attorney General, [[James M. Cole]], was in charge of the AP investigation and would have ordered the subpoenas.<ref name=nbcpolitics>{{cite news |last= Curry |first= Tom |title= Holder addresses AP leaks investigation, announces IRS probe |url= http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |work= NBC News |access-date= 1 June 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041857/http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |archive-date= 8 June 2013 |url-status= live }}</ref> ===AP collaboration with Nazi Germany=== {{Further|Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy#Business collaboration|Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda}} The AP [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|collaborated]] with [[Nazi Germany]] and gave to it access to its photographic archives for its [[Antisemitism in Nazi propaganda|antisemitic]] [[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|Nazi propaganda]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Philip Oltermann |title=Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg |access-date=July 4, 2020 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=March 30, 2016 |quote=AP also allowed the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]] to use its photo archives for its virulently [[Antisemitism in Nazi propaganda|antisemitic]] [[Propaganda in Nazi Germany|propaganda literature]]. Publications illustrated with AP photographs include the bestselling [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] brochure ''Der Untermensch'' ("The Sub-Human") and the booklet "The Jews in the USA", which aimed to demonstrate the decadence of [[Jewish Americans]] with a picture of New York mayor [[Fiorello La Guardia]] eating from a buffet with his hands.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf |title=Harriet Scharnberg, THE A AND P OF PROPAGANDA, Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism |access-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020145848/https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> AP also cooperated with the Nazi regime [[Censorship in Nazi Germany|through censorship]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Associated Press Cooperated With The Nazis |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/title-of-article |access-date=2021-04-19 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 30, 2016 |title=Revealed: How Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg |work=The Guardian}}</ref> In 2017, the German historian Norman Domeier of the [[University of Vienna]] brought to wider attention the deal between the AP and the [[Government of Nazi Germany|Nazi government]] related to the interchange of press photos during the period in which [[Military history of the United States during World War II|the United States were at war with Nazi Germany]].<ref name="Rosenwald 2017">{{cite news |author-last=Rosenwald |author-first=Michael S. |date=10 May 2017 |title=The secret deal the Associated Press made with the Nazis during WWII |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/ |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=2269358 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230091547/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/ |archive-date=30 December 2022 |access-date=19 May 2023}}</ref> This relationship involved the Bureau Laux, run by the [[Waffen-SS]] photographer [[Helmut Laux]].<ref name="Rosenwald 2017"/><ref name="Crary 2017">{{cite news |author-last=Crary |author-first=David |title=AP releases in-depth review of its coverage of Nazi Germany |url=https://apnews.com/article/new-york-race-and-ethnicity-world-war-ii-germany-archive-7fb06e5ff1d94ed5859b5eeaf4f16b45 |access-date=13 July 2021 |publisher=Associated Press |date=May 10, 2017 |quote=With [[American entry into World War II|the U.S. entry into the war against Germany]] in December 1941, AP's American staff members were arrested and interned for five months before being deported in a [[prisoner exchange]]. The AP German picture service was seized, handed over to the [[Government of Nazi Germany|German Foreign Ministry]] and put under control of a [[Waffen-SS]] photographer, [[Helmut Laux]]. Most German former AP personnel were forced into Laux's operation; others were sent to military units.}}</ref> The mechanism for this interchange involved a courier flying to [[Lisbon]] and back each day transporting photos from and for Nazi Germany's wartime enemy, the United States, via [[diplomatic pouch]]. The transactions were initially conducted at the AP bureau under Luiz Lupi in Lisbon, and from 1944, when the exchange via Lisbon took too long, also at the AP bureau in [[Stockholm]] under Eddie Shanke. Here, as a cover, the Swedish agency, {{Ill|Pressens Bild|sv}}, was involved as an intermediary. An estimated 40,000 photos were exchanged between the enemies in this way.<ref>{{cite web|trans-title=Secret Photos. The Cooperation between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Germany 1942–1945 |work=Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 14 |date=2017 |author=Norman Domeier |title=GEHEIME FOTOS - Die Kooperation von Associated Press und NS-Regime (1942–1945) |url=http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/id=5484}}</ref> The AP was kicked out of Nazi Germany when [[American entry into World War II|the United States entered World War II]] in December 1941.<ref name="Crary 2017"/> ===Israeli–Palestinian conflict=== In his book ''Broken Spring: An American-Israeli Reporter's Close-up View of How Egyptians Lost Their Struggle for Freedom'', former AP correspondent [[Mark Lavie]] claimed that the editorial line of the Cairo bureau was that the conflict was Israel's fault and the Arabs and Palestinians were blameless.<ref name=Friedman >{{cite news | last=Friedman |first=Matti |author-link=Matti Friedman | title = What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/ | access-date = 10 December 2014 | work = The Atlantic | date = 30 November 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210143643/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/ | archive-date = 10 December 2014 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name=Lavie15>{{cite news |title= ''Broken Spring'' by Mark Lavie |url= http://www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie |access-date= 10 December 2014 |work= Times of Israel |date= 15 September 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141215104230/http://www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie/ |archive-date= 15 December 2014 |url-status= live }}</ref><ref name=Lavie14>{{cite news |last1 = Lavie |first1 = Mark |title = Why Everything Reported from Gaza is Crazy Twisted |url = http://www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted |access-date = 10 December 2014 |work = The Tower |date = August 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210150516/http://www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/ |archive-date = 10 December 2014 |url-status = live }}</ref> Israeli journalist [[Matti Friedman]] accused the AP of killing a story he wrote about the "war of words", "between Israel and its critics in human rights organizations", in the aftermath of the [[Gaza War (2008–09)|Israel/Gaza conflict of 2008–09]].<ref name=Friedman/> ==== Tuvia Grossman photograph ==== On September 29, 2000, the first day of the [[Second Intifada]], the AP published a photograph of a badly bloodied young man behind whom a police officer could be seen with a baton raised in a menacing fashion; a gas station with Hebrew lettering could also be seen in the background.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=The pictures that are worth more than 1000 words|url=https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220602/https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|title=This Week in Israeli History: Tuvia Grossman – The Bloodied "Palestinian," Bar Giora and Menachem Ussishkin|url=https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220601/https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Markl|first=Florian|title="'Israel Threatens to Defend Itself': The Depiction of Israel in the Media". In Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective (eds. Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Florian Markl)|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2021|location=Berlin, Boston|pages=473–474}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Beeson|first=Patrick|title="Photojournalism." In "Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It."|publisher=McFarland & Co|year=2007|pages=184, 190}}</ref> The AP labelled it with the caption "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount", and the picture and caption were subsequently published in several major American newspapers, including the [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] and the [[The Boston Globe|''Boston Globe'']].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> In reality, the injured man in the photograph was a Jewish yeshiva student from Chicago named [[Tuvia Grossman]], and the police officer, a Druze named Gidon Tzefadi, was protecting Grossman from a Palestinian mob who had clubbed, stoned, and stabbed Grossman.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> The episode is often cited by those who accuse the media of having an anti-Israel bias, and was the impetus for the founding of [[HonestReporting]].<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=2000-10-06|title=Carnage for the Cameras|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|access-date=September 30, 2021|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220542/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Koltermann|first=Felix|title=Fotoreporter im Konflikt: Der internationale Fotojournalismus in Israel/Palästina|publisher=transcript Verlag|year=2017|location=Bielefeld|pages=25 n.3}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Photo that Started it All|url=https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|access-date=September 30, 2021|website=Honest Reporting|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003070124/https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|url-status=live}}</ref> After a letter from Grossman's father noted the error, the AP, the New York Times, and other papers published corrections; despite these corrections, the photograph continues to be used by critics of Israel as a symbol of Israeli aggression and violence.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-03-14|title=Nyt & Israel|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|access-date=2021-10-01|website=National Review|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001003306/https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|url-status=live}}</ref> ==== Israeli airstrike on the AP office building ==== During the [[2021 Israel–Palestine crisis]], the Israeli army [[Destruction of al-Jalaa Building|destroyed the al-Jalaa Highrise]], a building housing the AP's Gaza offices and [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] offices. Israel stated that the building housed [[Hamas]] military intelligence and had given advanced warning of the strike, and no civilians were harmed.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 June 2021 |title=Israel Says Gaza Tower That Housed AP Was Also Hamas Electronic Warfare Site |work=[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]] |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says |url-status=live |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319051018/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says |archive-date=19 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 16, 2021 |title=AP's top editor wants investigation into Israeli bombing of its Gaza office |publisher=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807160636/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/ |archive-date=2021-08-07}}</ref> AP CEO Gary Pruitt released a statement on May 16, stating that he "had no indication Hamas was in the building" and called on the Israeli government to provide the evidence. He said that "the world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d|title=Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office|date=May 16, 2021|website=Associated Press|access-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210516130244/https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d|archive-date=May 16, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> On 17 May, [[United States Secretary of State|US secretary of state]] [[Antony Blinken]] said he had not seen any evidence that Hamas operated from the building housing the AP and Al Jazeera, but it is the job of others to handle intelligence matters. Israel reportedly shared intelligence with American officials and U.S. president [[Joe Biden]] showing Hamas offices inside the building.<ref>{{cite news |title=Israel showed US 'smoking gun' on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303 |access-date=28 June 2021 |work=Jerusalem Post |date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526000159/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303 |url-status=live }}</ref> Journalist Matti Friedman also supported the Israeli government's claim.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Alexandra Ma |last2=Sinéad Baker |date=May 17, 2021 |title=A former Associated Press editor suggested that Hamas did have offices in the agency's Gaza City building, which Israel destroyed over the weekend |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/former-associated-press-editor-suggests-hamas-in-gaza-city-building-2021-5 |access-date=June 11, 2022 |work=[[Business Insider]] |archive-date=June 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220612001603/https://www.businessinsider.com/former-associated-press-editor-suggests-hamas-in-gaza-city-building-2021-5 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Reporters Without Borders]] asked the [[International Criminal Court]] to investigate the bombing as a possible [[war crime]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Blinken hasn't seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike |url=https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e |access-date=27 May 2021 |work=AP NEWS |date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=May 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527191818/https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e |url-status=live }}</ref> On June 8, Israeli Ambassador to the US [[Gilad Erdan]] met with AP CEO Gary Pruitt and vice president for foreign news, Ian Phillips, to discuss the operation. In coordination with the IDF, Erdan said the site was used by Hamas intelligence officials to develop and carry out [[SIGINT]] and electronic warfare operations, targeting both IDF and civilian systems in Israel, including devices to disrupt the [[Iron Dome]].<ref>{{cite news |date=9 June 2021 |title=Blinken hasn't seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike |work=Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/erdan-hamas-tried-to-develop-iron-dome-busting-tech-in-ap-gaza-building-670433 |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628151418/https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/erdan-hamas-tried-to-develop-iron-dome-busting-tech-in-ap-gaza-building-670433 |url-status=live }}</ref> Erdan also said the Israeli government does not believe the AP was aware of the Hamas presence because it was a secret unit. He said the Israeli government was willing to help rebuild the AP's offices and ensure they will be able to bring equipment into Gaza.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fung |first=Katherine |date=June 8, 2021 |title=Israel offers to help rebuild Associated Press building destroyed in Gaza bombing |url=https://www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220611231613/https://www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655 |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |work=[[Newsweek]] |access-date=June 12, 2022 }}</ref> ==== Firing of Emily Wilder ==== In May 2021, the AP said it would launch a review of its social media policies after questions were raised about the firing of a journalist who expressed pro-Palestinian views on social media. The announcement came after some AP journalists signed a letter expressing concern over the termination of former news associate Emily Wilder, whom the AP said committed multiple violations of the company's [[social media policy]]. The AP has said that Wilder's previous activism played no role in her termination.<ref>{{Citation |title=AP vice president speaks out on Emily Wilder firing |date=May 30, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |publisher=[[CNN Reliable Sources]] |access-date=June 12, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328173028/https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |url-status=live }}</ref> === Migrant Boat NFT === On January 10, 2022, AP announced it would start selling [[non-fungible token]]s (NFTs) of their photographs in partnership with a company named Xooa, with the proceeds being used to fund their operations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Mitchell |title=The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding |date=January 10, 2022 |work=The Verge |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304220742/https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding }}</ref> One of the NFTs they promoted on Twitter on 24 February was an aerial shot depicting an overcrowded migrant boat in the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. The tweet received negative backlash from users and other journalists, with AP being accused of profiting off of human suffering and the picture choice being "dystopian" and "in extremely poor taste". The tweet was subsequently deleted and the NFT, which was to be sold the next day, was pulled from market. Global director of media relations Lauren Easton apologized, saying "This was a poor choice of imagery for an NFT. It has not and will not be put up for auction [...] AP's NFT marketplace is a very early pilot program, and we are immediately reviewing our efforts".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bissada |first1=Masoj |title=AP Cancels Sale Of NFT Of Migrants Floating In Overcrowded Boat In Mediterranean |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/24/ap-cancels-sale-of-nft-of-migrants-floating-in-overcrowded-boat-in-mediterranean/ |date=February 25, 2022 |work=Forbes |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303033300/https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/24/ap-cancels-sale-of-nft-of-migrants-floating-in-overcrowded-boat-in-mediterranean/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cantor |first1=Matthew |title='Profiting off suffering': AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/profiting-off-suffering-ap-cancels-sale-of-migrant-boat-nft-amid-backlash |date=February 24, 2022 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304004915/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/profiting-off-suffering-ap-cancels-sale-of-migrant-boat-nft-amid-backlash }}</ref> ==Awards received== The AP has earned 58 [[Pulitzer Prizes]], including 35 for photography, since the award was established in 1917.<ref>{{Cite web|date=|title=Pulitzer Prizes won by the AP|url=https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes|access-date=December 26, 2022|publisher=Associated Press|archive-date=March 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302113204/https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes|url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2020, [[Dar Yasin]], [[Mukhtar Khan]], and [[Channi Anand]] of the AP were honored with the 2020 [[Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography]].<ref>{{cite news |title=AP's Kashmir photographers win Pulitzer for lockdown coverage |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html |publisher=[[Al Jazeera English]] |date=May 5, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505073918/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The choice caused controversy,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html|title=3 Indian photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize|work=[[Hindustan Times]]|date=May 6, 2020|first=Ashiq|last=Hussain|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=May 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507104555/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727|title=Kashmiri Pulitzer Prize winners caught in political debate|magazine=[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]|date=May 5, 2020|access-date=May 6, 2020|via=[[Indo-Asian News Service]] (IANS)|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919100327/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Pulitzer Prize questions India's legitimacy over Kashmir|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir|work=[[National Herald]]|date=May 5, 2020|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=May 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507142140/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir|url-status=live}}</ref> because it was taken by some as questioning "India's legitimacy over Kashmir" as it had used the word "independence" in regard to [[Revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir|revocation of Article 370]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441|title=Pulitzer Prize questions India's legitimacy over Kashmir (Ld)|date=5 May 2020|magazine=Outlook|access-date=May 6, 2020|via=(IANS)|archive-date=May 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510020414/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP won an Oscar<ref>{{cite news |title=FRONTLINE and AP Documentary 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Wins Academy Award® for "Best Documentary Feature Film" |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-and-ap-documentary-20-days-in-mariupol-wins-academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature-film/ |publisher=PBS |date=March 10, 2024}}</ref> in 2024 for [[20 Days in Mariupol]], a first-person account<ref>{{cite news |last1=LINDSEY BAHR |first1=CHRISTOPHER WEBER |title='20 Days in Mariupol' wins best documentary Oscar, a first for AP and PBS' 'Frontline' |url=https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8 |publisher=The Associated Press |date=March 11, 2024}}</ref> of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. ==See also== {{Portal|Journalism|United States}} * [[Agence France-Presse]], French news agency * ''[[Associated Press v. Meltwater]]'' * [[Australian Associated Press]], Australian news agency * [[The Canadian Press]], Canadian news agency * [[EFE]], Spanish news agency * [[George E. Bria|George Emil Bria]] * [[International Press Telecommunications Council]] * [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], described as the "Associated Press of Jewish media" * [[List of news agencies]] * [[List of online image archives]] * [[NewsML]] * [[News Industry Text Format]] * [[Reuters]] * [[TweenTribune]], children-focused news == References == === Citations === {{Reflist}} === Sources === {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |title = Breaking News: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace and Everything Else |year = 2007 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jxMLBzrbnFwC |publisher = [[Princeton Architectural Press]] |location = New York |isbn = 978-1-56898-689-0 }} * {{cite book |last = Fenby |first = Jonathan |title = The International News Services |url = https://archive.org/details/internationalnew00fenb |url-access = registration |year = 1986 |publisher = Schocken Books |location = New York |isbn = 0-8052-3995-2 }} * {{cite book |last = Schwarzlose |first = Richard Allen |title = The American Wire Services: A Study of Their Development as a Social Institution |year = 1979 |publisher = Arno Press |location = New York |isbn = 0-405-11774-4 }} * {{cite book |last= Schwarzlose |first = Richard Allen |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC |title = The Nation's Newsbrokers, Volume 1: The Formative Years: From Pretelegraph to 1865 |year = 1989 |publisher = Northwestern University Press |location = Evanston, IL |isbn = 0-8101-0818-6 }} * {{cite book |last = Schwarzlose |first = Richard Allen |title = The Nation's Newsbrokers |volume = 2: The Rush to Institution: From 1865 to 1920 |year = 1990 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=EAWXKB8ybWEC |publisher = Northwestern University Press |location = Evanston, IL |isbn = 0-8101-0819-4 }} * {{cite book |last = Silberstein-Loeb |first = Jonathan |title = The International Distribution of News: The Associated Press, Press Association, and Reuters, 1848–1947 |year = 2014 }} {{refend}} ==Further reading== * Blanchard, Margaret A. "The Associated Press antitrust suit: A philosophical clash over ownership of first amendment rights." ''Business History Review'' 61.1 (1987): 43–85. * Blondheim, Menahem. ''News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897'' (Harvard U. Press, 1994). * Blondheim, Menahem. "The click: Telegraphic technology, journalism, and the transformations of the New York Associated Press." ''American Journalism'' 17.4 (2000): 27–52. * Coopersmith, Jonathan. "From lemons to lemonade: The development of AP Wirephoto." ''American Journalism'' 17.4 (2000): 55–72. * Dell'Orto, Giovanna. ''AP foreign correspondents in action: World War II to the present'' (Cambridge University Press, 2016) [https://books.google.com/books?id=cW3OCgAAQBAJ&dq=.+AP+Foreign+Correspondents+in+Action:+World+War+II+to+the+Present.&pg=PR10 online]. * [[David Halberstam|Halberstam, David.]] ''Breaking news: how the Associated Press has covered war, peace, and everything else'' (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) [https://www.eiu.edu/booth/exhibits/breakingnews/fullprogram.pdf online]. * Kirat, Mohamed, and David Weaver. "Foreign news coverage in three wire services: A study of AP, UPI, and the nonaligned news agencies pool." ''Gazette'' (Leiden, Netherlands) 35.1 (1985): 31–47. * Rantanen, Terhi. "Foreign dependence and domestic monopoly: The European news cartel and US associated presses, 1861–1932." ''Media History'' 12.1 (2006): 19–35. * Renaud, Jean-Luc. "US government assistance to AP's world-wide expansion." ''Journalism Quarterly'' 62.1 (1985): 10–36. * Seo, Soomin. "Blue-Collar witnesses to power: The culture of photographers at the Associated Press." ''Journalism Studies'' 20.15 (2019): 2200–2217. [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Soomin-Seo/publication/331557515_Blue-Collar_Witnesses_to_Power_The_Culture_of_Photographers_at_the_Associated_Press/links/5d018e934585157d15a6a12d/Blue-Collar-Witnesses-to-Power-The-Culture-of-Photographers-at-the-Associated-Press.pdf online] * Smethers, J. Steven. "Pounding Brass for the Associated Press: Delivering News by Telegraph in a Pre-Teletype Era." ''American Journalism'' 19.2 (2002): 13–30. * Watts, Liz. "AP's first female reporters." ''Journalism History'' 39.1 (2013): 15–28. 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