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The Associated Press (AP) is an American 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 Prizes, including 35 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used AP Stylebook, its AP polls tracking NCAA sports, and its election polls and results during US elections. By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. 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 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. The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun, joined by the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express. Some historians 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. 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. 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. In 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. United States 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. The decision facilitated the growth of its main rival United Press International, headed by Hugh Baillie from 1935 to 1955. 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 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. 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. 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%. 37% came from the global broadcast customers, 15% from online ventures and 18% came from international newspapers and from photography. 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. 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. 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, interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute. A 2017 study by NewsWhip revealed that AP content was more engaged with on Facebook than content from any individual English-language publisher. Timeline 1849: The Harbor News Association opened the first news bureau outside the United States in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to meet ships sailing from Europe before they reached dock in New York. 1876: Mark Kellogg, a 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 telegraph to cover the America's Cup yacht race off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the first news test of the new technology. 1914: The AP .... Discover the Associated Press popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Associated Press books.
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In re Associated Press
Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of AppealsArgued September 23, 1998 This appeal brings to us three rulings by the district court in the criminal trial of James R. Berger on charges of defrauding the Illinois Department of ...
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Psychologizing Physics.
Shakespeare StudiesIN HIS ESSAY "The Uncanny," Freud describes unheimlich "forms of egodisturbance" as a "harkingback ... to a time when the ego had not yet marked itself off sharply from the externa...
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The Associated Press Guide To Punctuation
Rene J. CapponIn the nononsense, authoritative tradition of the bestselling AP Stylebook, the top editors at the AP have written the definitive guide to punctuation. More people write for the A...
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Associated Press Et Al. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United Statesassociation incorporated under the Membership Corporation Law of the State of New York. Its business is the collection, assembly and distribution of news. The news it distributes i...
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Titan of Tehran
Shahrzad Elghanayan“Titan of Tehran,” a richly reported and elegantly rendered story, presents a compelling central character, historic sweep and moments that read like chapters in a thriller. T...
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The Associated Press Guide To Internet Research And Reporting
Frank BassHow does a reporter go about researching a story on the Internet and how does one fact check and cite online sources? What are the copyright issues involved in quoting Internet sou...
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Three Brilliant Careers
Ross DaviesThree Brilliant Careers reveals the previously untold story of celebrated author Miles Franklin and two lifelong Australian friends, Nell Malone and Kath Ussher, who met in Chicago...
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Newshawks in Berlin
Larry Heinzerling & Randy HerschaftAfter the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was Americ...
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Mr. Associated Press
Gene AllenBetween 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world’s dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in th...
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John Flynn
Ivan RudolphJohn Flynn is one of Australia's greatest folk heroes. His achievements are stuff of legend no other Australian has had more monuments dedicated to him than John Flynn. Flynn esta...
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Assignment to Hell
Timothy M. Gay“A book every modern journalistand citizenshould read.”Tom Brokaw, Author of The Greatest GenerationIn February 1943, a group of journalistsincluding a young wire service corr...
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Dinosaur Devotions
Michelle Medlock Adams“Michelle Medlock Adams has created a fun, lively devotional that’s sure to appeal to dinosaur lovers of all ages. Filled with fun dino facts, journaling prompts, and Scripture,...
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My Year of Running Dangerously
Tom ForemanCNN correspondent Tom Foreman's remarkable journey from halfhearted couch potato to ultramarathon runner, with four halfmarathons, three marathons, and 2,000 miles of training in b...
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River of No Return
David Riley BertschA Wyoming fishing guide must return to his investigative roots to find his best friend’s girlfriend in this “nonstop adventure and suspenseful pageturner that leaves the reader bre...
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Associated Press v. Bd. of Pub. Education
North Carolina Court of AppealsDefendant, the Board of Public Education, appeals from an order granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs, the Associated Press and its member organizations. The District Co...
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Walker v. Associated Press
Colorado Supreme CourtEdwin A. Walker, hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff, brought a libel action against the Associated Press, a New York corporation, and the Denver Post, Inc., a Colorado corpor...
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Imaginary Anatomies.
Shakespeare StudiesIN THE "Aetiology of Hysteria," the paper that he read to the Viennese Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in 1896, Freud inaugurated a system of archeological metaphors that was ...
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The Best Punctuation Book, Period
June CasagrandeThis allinone reference is a quick and easy way for book, magazine, online, academic, and business writers to look up sticky punctuation questions for all styles including AP (Asso...
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The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press
Gerald HorneFor nearly fifty years, the Chicagobased Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad. At its head stood founder Claud...
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Betrayals
Ian CallinanBetrayals plots the destinies of three people of very different backgrounds and personalities as they live their lives in Ipswich, Brisbane, Canberra, Vietnam, Oxford, Moscow and, ...
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Time Present and Time Past
Ronald T. ParsonsTake a stroll down memory lane as an ailing old man reflects on his life, loves, family, friends and the times. Both good and bad. Born during the great depression, he recounts the...
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The Associated Press v. Mt. Senate Repub. Caucus
Supreme Court of New YorkPage 174 This is an appeal from the District Courts November 16, 1995 order dismissing the Appellantscomplaint. The trial court held that the Respondent Senate and House Republica...
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Associated Press Coverage of a Major Disaster
Thomas FenschOriginally published in 1989. This diary of a news event looks at how the reporting happened as spread by the news wire system of the Associated Press service in America. Analysing...
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The Associated Press Guide to News Writing, 4th Edition
Peterson'sThe Associated Press Guide to News Writing, is the standard professional resource for both novice and experienced news writers. This practical handbook is the ideal writing style g...
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Associated Press Guide to Photojournalism
Brian HortonWritten by noted AP photographer and photoeditor Brian Horton, this is an insider's manual to one of the most glamorous and exciting media professions. Emphasizing the creative...
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Empty Without You
Roger StreitmatterThe relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok has sparked vociferous debate ever since 1978, when archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt L...
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The Inheritance
Niki KapsambelisThis gripping story of the doctors at the forefront of Alzheimer’s research and the courageous North Dakota family whose rare genetic code is helping to understand our most feared ...
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Catherine McAuley Friend of All
Micheal O’SullivanCatherine McAuley was born in Dublin, Ireland, in September 1778 and went on to establish the Sisters of Mercy in December 1831. She never imagined she would make such a difference...
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Starting Your Career as a Freelance Editor
Mary EmbreeIf you've ever considered editing as a career, this book will help you on your new path. You’ll learn about the requirements in various fields, how to get started, the stepbystep f...
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Associated Press v. State
Supreme Court of MontanaPage 211 In July 1993, plaintiff and appellant Jack Mattingly filed an action in the District Court for the First Judicial District in Lewis and Clark County against First Bank of ...
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Whistle up a Storm
Kevin CroweKevin Crowe was a rugby union player and World War II veteran. This book tells the story of his life as a rugby player in Queensland from the 1940s, and his career as a referee and...
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Jill
Julie Pace & Darlene SupervilleMost Anticipated by Daily HiveThe personal and political life of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Joe Biden’s greatest political asset....
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The Shouted Goodbye
Jeremy WardWhen Jeremy Ward’s first child, Mena, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of eight months, he and Mena’s mother, Margaret, soon realised that their world had changed forev...
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Broken Faith
Mitch Weiss & Holbrook MohrAn NPR Best Book of the YearA PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020“I can’t imagine a more important book.”Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling authorAn explosive investigation i...
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The Last Australia Day
Manfred JurgensenThis book raises the provocative question: Are we in danger of becoming a morally bankrupt people "who have had it too easy for too long?" In the context of a continuing internatio...
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The Reporting of Ned Kelly and the Kelly Gang
Trudy ToohillAt the time, Ned Kelly’s bushranging exploits were the biggest news story in the country. From 1869 to 1910 numerous newspaper articles were published on him. The Reporting of Ned ...
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RU-486
Caroline de CostaRU486 is the drug prescribed for medical abortion. This book deals clearly with the nature and effects of the drug, its risks and the history of its development and use in Europe, ...
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A Greater Guilt
Noeline KyleA brutal murder of a child in the English village of Road in 1860 which remained an unsolved crime until the sensational confession of Constance Emilie Kent in 1865. If you are a ...
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Matter Associated Press Et Al. v. Howard E. Bell
Court of Appeals of New York[70 N.Y.2d 32 Page 35] Opinion OF THE COURT This appeal in a highly publicized murder case centers on the tension between the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial an...