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| industry = News mediaTITLE=DOCUMENTS SHED NEW LIGHT ON BIRTH OF AP; WIRE OLDER THAN ORIGINALLY THOUGHT MAGAZINE=EDITOR & PUBLISHER 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/, 28 July 2018, 200 Liberty Street, {{nowrap>New York City, New York, U.S.}}| area_served = WorldwideSteven R. Swartz (Chairperson)>Daisy Veerasingham (president and chief executive officer)}}News agency>Wire serviceUnited States dollar>US$510.135 million (2017)CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS > PUBLISHER=ASSOCIATED PRESS URL=HTTPS://WWW.AP.ORG/ABOUT/ANNUAL-REPORT/2017/AP-FINANCIALS-2017.PDF ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20160615091057/HTTP://WWW.AP.ORG/ANNUAL-REPORT/2015/ASSOCIATEDPRESS_2015FINANCIALSTATEMENTS.PDF URL-STATUS=LIVE, | net_income = {{loss}} US$-73.966 million (2017)| members = | num_employees = 3,300{{URLwww.apnews.com>apnews.com}}www.ap.org|ap.org}} (Corporate)}}}}The Associated Press (AP)WEB, Associated Press, The,www.apstylebook.com/ap_stylebook/associated-press-the, AP Stylebook, The Associated Press, 24 October 2023, May 6, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240506222441/https://www.apstylebook.com/users/sign_in, live, 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 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 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.WEB,www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf, 2016 Consolidated Financial Statements, April 5, 2017, Associated Press, March 4, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180304172429/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf, March 4, 2018, live, The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic.WEB, AP by the Numbers,www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2022-report/ap-by-the-numbers/, Associated Press, March 21, 2024, March 21, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240321141346/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2022-report/ap-by-the-numbers/, live, 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.NEWS,www.economist.com/node/15108618, Network effects, The Economist, 2018-02-20,www.economist.com/node/15108618," title="web.archive.org/web/20180221035608www.economist.com/node/15108618,">web.archive.org/web/20180221035608www.economist.com/node/15108618, 2018-02-21, live, 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.Beach, Stanley, Archives at Yale, Stanley Yale Beach papers {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331233228archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/850 |date=March 31, 2023 }}, Number: GEN MSS 802, 1911-1948NEWS,www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/06/26/the-birth-of-atari-modern-computer-design-and-the-software-industry-this-week-in-tech-history/, The Birth of Atari, Modern Computer Design, And The Software Industry: This Week In Tech History, Press, Gil, Forbes, 2018-02-20,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/, 2018-02-21, live, Some historiansBOOK,books.google.com/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&q=tribune+associated+press+1849&pg=PA93, The Nation’s Newsbrokers: The formative years, from pretelegraphs to 1865, Schwarzlose, Richard Allen, 1989, Northwestern University Press, 978-0-8101-0818-9, 93, January 4, 2019,web.archive.org/web/20190104124424/https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=tribune%20associated%20press%201849, January 4, 2019, live, 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.BOOK,books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69, International News Agencies: A History, Palmer, Michael B., 2019, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-030-31177-3, 69, 3 June 2020, March 26, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230326164823/https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69, live, 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.JOURNAL,books.google.com/books?id=rNoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA392, Wire That Photo, Popular Mechanics, July 1937, June 4, 2014, May 6, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240506222441/https://books.google.com/books?id=rNoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA392#v=onepage&q&f=false, live, In 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. United StatesWEB,supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/, Associated PRess v. United States, 326 U.S. 1 (1945), 1945, Justia, October 2, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220505000929/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/, May 5, 2022, 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.WEB,www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states, Associated Press v. United States (1945), Vile, John R, The First Amendment Encyclopedia, October 2, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220526215914/https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states, May 26, 2022, 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 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.WEB, AP by the numbers, Associated Press, 2019, 10 September 2020,www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers, December 14, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20201214065039/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers, 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%. 37% came from the global broadcast customers, 15% from online ventures and 18% came from international newspapers and from photography.NEWS, Down On The Wire,www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html, 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, Forbes, 2009-04-09, 2008-02-14,www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20090331174432www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html,">web.archive.org/web/20090331174432www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html, 31 March 2009, live, Louis, Hau, 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.NEWS, Korach, Natalie, USA Today Publisher Gannett to Drop Associated Press Content Across All Publications,www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usa-today-publisher-gannett-drop-172126799.html, March 19, 2024, Yahoo News, March 19, 2024, March 19, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240319194128/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usa-today-publisher-gannett-drop-172126799.html, live, 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.NEWS, Mullin, Benjamin, Robertson, Katie, Gannett and McClatchy Cut Back Relationship With A.P.,www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/media/gannett-mcclatchy-ap-associated-press.html, March 20, 2024, New York Times, March 19, 2024, March 20, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240320001233/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/media/gannett-mcclatchy-ap-associated-press.html, live,

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,NEWS, Google News Becomes A Publisher,www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255, ‘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., Information Week, August 31, 2007, 2008-04-26,www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255," title="web.archive.org/web/20080627154658www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255,">web.archive.org/web/20080627154658www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255, June 27, 2008, live, interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute.NEWS, Google Stops Hosting New AP Content,paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content, 2010-01-11,paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content," title="web.archive.org/web/20100112081900paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content,">web.archive.org/web/20100112081900paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content, 12 January 2010, live, NEWS, Google, AP reach deal for Google News content,news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html, CNET, August 30, 2010, 2012-10-19,news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20140102200432news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html,">web.archive.org/web/20140102200432news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html, January 2, 2014, live, A 2017 study by NewsWhip revealed that AP content was more engaged with on Facebook than content from any individual English-language publisher.PRESS RELEASE,www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july, AP content drives more Facebook engagements than individual publishers in June, July, Associated Press, 2018-04-06,web.archive.org/web/20180407053939/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july, 2018-04-07, live,

Timeline

Governance

The AP is governed by an elected board of directors.WEB, Facts & Figures: AP Board of Directors, Associated Press,www.ap.org/Company/Board-of-Directors, live, November 17, 2009,ap.org/company/board-of-directors," title="web.archive.org/web/20120314182613ap.org/company/board-of-directors,">web.archive.org/web/20120314182613ap.org/company/board-of-directors, 2012-03-14, Since April 2022, the chairperson is Gracia C. Martore, former president and CEO of Tegna, Inc.WEB, AP announces 1 director, 4 incumbents at annual meeting,www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-1-director-4-incumbents-at-annual-meeting/, 2024-04-15, The Associated Press, en-US, April 16, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240416190102/https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-1-director-4-incumbents-at-annual-meeting/, live,

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.WEB, Understanding the Election,www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election, Associated Press, November 15, 2020, February 23, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210223204033/https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election, live, 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.NEWS, Sadler, Megan, How the Associated Press calls election races and ensures vote count accuracy,www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/, November 15, 2020, WVLT-TV, Associated Press, November 10, 2020, November 10, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20201110181846/https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/, live, 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. 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.WEB, AP VoteCast,www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about, Associated Press, November 15, 2020, February 23, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210223210751/https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about, live, Recognized for its integrity and accuracy, the organization has collected and published presidential election data since 1848.NEWS, Storey, Kate, How the Associated Press Plans to Determine the Winner of This Year’s Election,www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/, November 15, 2020, Esquire (magazine), Esquire, October 29, 2020, November 30, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20201130143928/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/, live, During the 2016 election, the AP was 100% accurate in calling the president and congressional races in every state.

Sports polls

The AP conducts polls for numerous 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.NEWS,www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html, The best and worst of LSU’s AP preseason poll history, NOLA.com, July 20, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180720225231/https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html, July 20, 2018, live, The AP released its all-time Top 25 in 2016.NEWS,www.forbes.com/sites/blakewilliams3012/2016/08/21/what-the-last-five-seasons-of-the-ap-poll-say-about-trending-teams-in-college-football/, What The Last Five Seasons Of The AP Poll Say About Trending Teams In College Football, Williams, Blake, Forbes, July 20, 2018,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/, July 20, 2018, live, {{as of|2017}}, 22 different programs had finished in the number one spot of the poll since its inception.NEWS,www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2017-08-21/college-football-rankings-who-has-been-no-1-ap-preseason-poll-most, College football rankings: Who has been No. 1 in the AP preseason poll most often and how did they finish?, 2017-08-21, NCAA, July 20, 2018,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, July 20, 2018, live, 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 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.NEWS, March 29, 2017, AP Top 25 polls highlight Top 100 all-time in college basketball, The Denver Post,www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/, live, July 20, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180720225211/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/, July 20, 2018,

Sports awards

Baseball

The AP began its Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league.AP Manager of the Year Award {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201204555baseball-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.NEWS, Eddie Sawyer Honored in Baseball Vote, Prescott Evening Courier, November 8, 1950,news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502, Section 2, Page 1, 2010-09-16, February 27, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210227110618/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502, From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.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 (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. The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.

Basketball

Every year, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards. It also honors a group of All-American players.

Football

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.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html, A.P. Buys Worldwide Television News, Reuters, The New York Times, June 3, 1998, July 20, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180709100154/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html, 2018-07-09, live, 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.WEB, 3 June 1998, A.P. Buys Worldwide Television News,www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html, 13 January 2021, The New York Times, July 9, 2018,web.archive.org/web/20180709100154/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html, live, 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.NEWS,www.journalism.co.uk/news/ap-experiments-with-live-streams-as-appetite-for-up-to-the-minute-video-grows-/s2/a601343/, AP experiments with live streams as appetite for up-to-the-minute video grows, 2016-01-13, 2018-04-06,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/, July 20, 2018, live,

AP Stylebook

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Litigation and controversies

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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,NEWS,www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all, Adventurous Thinkers, Burford, Michelle, O, The Oprah Magazine, July 2002, February 12, 2020, February 3, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200203194721/https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all, live, dragged her from her car in broad daylight,NEWS,ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1281&id=1281, When a Journalist is Kidnapped, September 1994, Callahan, Christopher, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and held her for 20 days. She told The Quill that she believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there.NEWS,www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/, Dietrich, Heidi, Women in War Zones, The Quill, 20 November 2002, February 12, 2020, February 4, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200204191438/https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/, live, 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.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html, In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists, The New York Times, William, Glaberson, August 8, 1994, February 12, 2020, May 21, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200521121732/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html, live,

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 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”.NEWS,www.slate.com/?id=2073304, Fib Newton, October 29, 2002, Slate.com, April 16, 2008,www.slate.com/?id=2073304," title="web.archive.org/web/20080508022026www.slate.com/?id=2073304,">web.archive.org/web/20080508022026www.slate.com/?id=2073304, May 8, 2008, live,

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.NEWS, Miller, Mary Ann,www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html, Associated Press sues after FBI impersonates journalist in sting operation, Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2015, live,www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171224101449www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171224101449www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html, December 24, 2017, NEWS, Reilly, Ryan,www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7, An FBI Agent Did A Pretty Terrible Job Of Pretending To Be A Journalist, HuffPost, September 15, 2016, live,web.archive.org/web/20180306211618/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7, March 6, 2018, The incident sparked a strongly worded statement from the AP demanding the bureau never impersonate a member of the news media again.NEWS, Tucker, Eric,apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4, AP demands FBI never again impersonate journalist, Associated Press, November 10, 2014, live,web.archive.org/web/20171224101310/https://apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4, December 24, 2017, In September 2016 the incident resulted in a report by the Justice Department, which the AP said “effectively condone[d] the FBI’s impersonation”.WEB, Colford, Paul, September 15, 2016, AP statement on inspector general report,blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report, 2021-05-15, Associated Press - Blog, May 15, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210515130517/https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report, live, NEWS, Wemple, Erik, September 15, 2016, Justice Department report ‘effectively condone[s]’ FBI impersonation incident, The Washington Post,www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/15/ap-justice-department-report-effectively-condones-fbi-impersonation-incident/, live,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/, December 24, 2017, 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.NEWS, Cohen, Kelly,www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647, Appeals Court sides with Associated Press in lawsuit against FBI, Washington Examiner, December 15, 2017, live,www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647," title="web.archive.org/web/20171224101355www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647,">web.archive.org/web/20171224101355www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647, December 24, 2017, NEWS, Gresko, Jessica,www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html, US court hears case involving impersonation of AP journalist, Chicago Tribune, November 15, 2017,www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20171224101405www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html,">web.archive.org/web/20171224101405www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html, December 24, 2017, January 19, 2019,

Fair-use controversy

In June 2008, the AP sent numerous DMCA take-down demands and threatened legal action against several blogs. 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 standards.NEWS,cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381, AP’s Fair Use Challenge (Harvard Law), Berkman Center for Internet and Society, 2008-06-17, 2014-06-04,cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381," title="web.archive.org/web/20110512044752cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381,">web.archive.org/web/20110512044752cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381, 2011-05-12, 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.NEWS, The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs,www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html, 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., The New York Times, June 16, 2008, 2009-04-09, Saul, Hansell,www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20090409031736www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html,">web.archive.org/web/20090409031736www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html, 9 April 2009, live,

Shepard Fairey

In March 2009, the AP counter-sued artist Shepard Fairey over his famous image of Barack Obama, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated 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 presidential election and now hangs in the 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 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.NEWS, Memmott, Mark, Shepard Fairey And AP Settle Copyright Dispute Over ‘Hope’ Poster,www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster, 31 August 2012, NPR, 11 January 2011,www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster," title="web.archive.org/web/20120623172550www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster,">web.archive.org/web/20120623172550www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster, 23 June 2012, live,

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.NEWS, Schonfeld, Erick, Hot News: The AP Is Living In The Last Century,www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html, February 22, 2009, April 25, 2010, The Washington Post,www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20110604165028www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html,">web.archive.org/web/20110604165028www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html, June 4, 2011, live, NEWS, Anderson, Nate, Who owns the facts? The AP and the “hot news” controversy, Ars Technica,arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars, June 14, 2017,arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars," title="web.archive.org/web/20111231024500arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars,">web.archive.org/web/20111231024500arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars, 2011-12-31, live, 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.COURT, The Associated Press v. All Headline News Corp., 08, Civ., 323, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, February 17, 2009,www.scribd.com/doc/12637101/Decision-AP-Hot-News-Doctrine,web.archive.org/web/20160305065324/https://www.scribd.com/doc/12637101/Decision-AP-Hot-News-Doctrine, live, The case has been dismissed and both parties settled.WEB,www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf, Citizen Media Law Project, June 4, 2014, May 6, 2024,www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf," title="web.archive.org/web/20240506222445www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf,">web.archive.org/web/20240506222445www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf, live,

Hoax tweet and flash crash

On April 23, 2013, hackers posted a tweet to AP’s Twitter account about fictional attacks on the White House, falsely claiming that President Obama had been injured.NEWS, 2013-04-23, AP Twitter account hacked in fake ‘White House blasts’ post, en-GB, BBC News,www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21508660, 2023-08-19, August 19, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230819121310/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21508660, live, The hoax caused a flash crash on the American stock markets, with the Dow Jones index briefly falling by 143 points.NEWS, Moore, Heidi, Roberts, Dan, 2013-04-23, AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging, en-GB, The Guardian,www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall, 2023-08-19, 0261-3077, August 19, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230819121310/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall, live,

Justice Department subpoena of phone records

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.NEWS, Sanchez, Raf, US Justice Department secretly seizes Associated Press phone records,www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html, The Telegraph, May 15, 2013, London, May 13, 2013,www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20130514070630www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html,">web.archive.org/web/20130514070630www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html, May 14, 2013, live, NEWS, US government secretly obtained Associated Press phone records,www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records, The Guardian, 15 May 2013, 17 December 2016,web.archive.org/web/20160927231734/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records, 27 September 2016, live, 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 CIA operation that prevented a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on a commercial flight.NEWS, Ingram, David, Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists’ phone records,ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513, Reuters Canada, 15 May 2013, 2013-05-13,ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513," title="web.archive.org/web/20140529084725ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513,">web.archive.org/web/20140529084725ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513, 29 May 2014, live, The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the AP, instead going to their phone providers, including Verizon Wireless.NEWS, Gallagher, Ryan, Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters’ Phone Records to Feds,www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html, Slate, 20 May 2013,www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html," title="web.archive.org/web/20130519142639www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html,">web.archive.org/web/20130519142639www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html, 19 May 2013, live, 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.NEWS, Curry, Tom, Holder addresses AP leaks investigation, announces IRS probe,nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe, NBC News, 1 June 2013,nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe," title="web.archive.org/web/20130608041857nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe,">web.archive.org/web/20130608041857nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe, 8 June 2013, live,

AP collaboration with Nazi Germany

{{Further|Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy#Business collaboration|Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda}} The AP collaborated with Nazi Germany and gave to it access to its photographic archives for its antisemitic Nazi propaganda.NEWS, Philip Oltermann, Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis,www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg, July 4, 2020, The Guardian, March 30, 2016, 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., August 23, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230823192403/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg, live, WEB,zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf, Harriet Scharnberg, THE A AND P OF PROPAGANDA, Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism, September 29, 2022, October 20, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221020145848/https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf, live, AP also cooperated with the Nazi regime through censorship.WEB, The Associated Press Cooperated With The Nazis,www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/title-of-article, 2021-04-19, www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org, October 20, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20221020052954/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/title-of-article, live, NEWS, March 30, 2016, Revealed: How Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis,www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg, The Guardian, July 4, 2020, August 23, 2023,web.archive.org/web/20230823192403/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg, live, In 2017, the German historian Norman Domeier of the University of Vienna brought to wider attention the deal between the AP and the Nazi government related to the interchange of press photos during the period in which the United States were at war with Nazi Germany.NEWS, Rosenwald, Michael S., 10 May 2017, The secret deal the Associated Press made with the Nazis during WWII,www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/, live, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., 0190-8286, 2269358,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/, 30 December 2022, 19 May 2023, This relationship involved the Bureau Laux, run by the Waffen-SS photographer Helmut Laux.NEWS, Crary, David, AP releases in-depth review of its coverage of Nazi Germany,apnews.com/article/new-york-race-and-ethnicity-world-war-ii-germany-archive-7fb06e5ff1d94ed5859b5eeaf4f16b45, 13 July 2021, Associated Press, May 10, 2017, 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., July 13, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210713160037/https://apnews.com/article/new-york-race-and-ethnicity-world-war-ii-germany-archive-7fb06e5ff1d94ed5859b5eeaf4f16b45, live, 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.WEB, Secret Photos. The Cooperation between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Germany 1942–1945, Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 14, 2017, Norman Domeier, GEHEIME FOTOS - Die Kooperation von Associated Press und NS-Regime (1942–1945),www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/id=5484, March 8, 2020, May 15, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200515174901/https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/id=5484, live, The AP was kicked out of Nazi Germany when the United States entered World War II in December 1941.

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.NEWS, Friedman, Matti, Matti Friedman, What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel,www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/, 10 December 2014, The Atlantic, 30 November 2014,www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/," title="web.archive.org/web/20141210143643www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/,">web.archive.org/web/20141210143643www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/, 10 December 2014, live, NEWS, Broken Spring by Mark Lavie,www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie, 10 December 2014, Times of Israel, 15 September 2014,www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie/," title="web.archive.org/web/20141215104230www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie/,">web.archive.org/web/20141215104230www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie/, 15 December 2014, live, NEWS, Lavie, Mark, Why Everything Reported from Gaza is Crazy Twisted,www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted, 10 December 2014, The Tower, August 2014,www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/," title="web.archive.org/web/20141210150516www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/,">web.archive.org/web/20141210150516www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/, 10 December 2014, live, 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 Israel/Gaza conflict of 2008–09.

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.NEWS, September 10, 2010, The pictures that are worth more than 1000 words,www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words, live,web.archive.org/web/20210930220602/https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words, September 30, 2021, September 30, 2021, The Jerusalem Post, NEWS, This Week in Israeli History: Tuvia Grossman – The Bloodied “Palestinian,” Bar Giora and Menachem Ussishkin,www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484, September 30, 2021, The Jerusalem Post, September 30, 2021,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, live, BOOK, Markl, Florian, “’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), De Gruyter, 2021, Berlin, Boston, 473–474, 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 New York Times.NEWS, McFadden, Robert D., Robert D. McFadden, 2000-10-07, Abruptly, a U.S. Student In Mideast Turmoil’s Grip,www.nytimes.com/2000/10/07/world/abruptly-a-us-student-in-mideast-turmoil-s-grip.html,archive.today/o46ca, 2013-01-30, The New York Times, en-US, 0362-4331, The A.P., which had received many pictures of injured Palestinians that day, did not clarify the garbled caption but sent the picture to subscribers with a caption based on the erroneous assumption that Mr. Grossman was a Palestinian. It also misidentified the site, first as the Temple Mount and later as another site in the Old City. Many newspapers published the picture and erroneous captions based on The A.P.’s information. The New York Times misidentified Mr. Grossman in last Saturday’s issue as a Palestinian and in some copies misidentified the site as the Temple Mount., 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. There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount.BOOK, Beeson, Patrick, “Photojournalism.” In “Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It.”, McFarland & Co, 2007, 184, 190, 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.NEWS, 2000-10-06, Carnage for the Cameras, The Wall Street Journal,www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971, September 30, 2021, September 30, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210930220542/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971, live, BOOK, Koltermann, Felix, Fotoreporter im Konflikt: Der internationale Fotojournalismus in Israel/Palästina, transcript Verlag, 2017, Bielefeld, 25 n.3, WEB, The Photo that Started it All,honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/, September 30, 2021, Honest Reporting, October 3, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20211003070124/https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/, live, 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.WEB, 2003-03-14, Nyt & Israel,www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/, 2021-10-01, National Review, October 1, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20211001003306/https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/, live,

Israeli airstrike on the AP office building

During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, the Israeli army destroyed the al-Jalaa Highrise, a building housing the AP’s Gaza offices and 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.NEWS, 8 June 2021, Israel Says Gaza Tower That Housed AP Was Also Hamas Electronic Warfare Site, Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg,www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says, live, 28 June 2021,web.archive.org/web/20220319051018/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says, 19 March 2022, NEWS, May 16, 2021, AP’s top editor wants investigation into Israeli bombing of its Gaza office, Reuters,www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/,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/, 2021-08-07, 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.“WEB,apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d, Statement: AP ‘horrified’ by Israeli attack on its office, May 16, 2021, Associated Press, May 17, 2021,archive.today/20210516130244/https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d, May 16, 2021, live, On 17 May, 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.NEWS, Israel showed US ‘smoking gun’ on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say,www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303, 28 June 2021, Jerusalem Post, 17 May 2021, May 26, 2021,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, live, Reporters Without Borders asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the bombing as a possible war crime.NEWS, Blinken hasn’t seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike,apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e, 27 May 2021, AP NEWS, 17 May 2021, May 27, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210527191818/https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e, live, 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 electronic warfare operations,NEWS, 9 June 2021, Blinken hasn’t seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike, Jerusalem Post,www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/erdan-hamas-tried-to-develop-iron-dome-busting-tech-in-ap-gaza-building-670433, 28 June 2021, June 28, 2021,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, live, and that IDF did not suspect the AP was aware of the alleged covert Hamas presence. After the meeting the AP stated “We have yet to receive evidence to support these claims”. Erdan later tweeted “Israel is willing to assist AP in rebuilding its offices and operations in Gaza.“WEB, Fung, Katherine, June 8, 2021, Israel offers to help rebuild Associated Press building destroyed in Gaza bombing,www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655, live,archive.today/20220611231613/https://www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655, June 11, 2022, Newsweek, June 12, 2022,

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.{{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/20220328173028www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |url-status=live }}

Removal of Israel-Palestine Livestream

On May 21st, Israeli officials seized equipment broadcasting a live stream of Northern Gaza from the town of Sderot as part of a ban on Al Jazeera Media in Israel which had received footage from the broadcast. The move was condemned by multiple journalism organizations, Israeli opposition politicians, and US government officials. In a press briefing, the spokesperson for the National Security Council commented on the seizure, saying “The White House and the State Department immediately engaged with the government of Israel at high levels to express our serious concern and ask them to reverse this action.“NEWS, Federman,Josef, Kirka, Danica, Israel says it will return video equipment seized from AP,apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190, 21 May 2024, Associated Press, 21 May 2024, Later that day, Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi announced via Twitter that the equipment would be returned to the AP and the Israeli Government would review the positioning of the AP broadcast to determine if it posed a security risk. WEB, Karhi, Shlomo, The equipment of the media regularly reported on the location of the military forces in the north of the Gaza Strip...,x.com/shlomo_karhi/status/1792995335721136332, X, 21 May 2024,

Migrant Boat NFT

On January 10, 2022, AP announced it would start selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their photographs in partnership with a company named Xooa, with the proceeds being used to fund their operations.NEWS, Clark, Mitchell, The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism, live, March 4, 2022,www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding, January 10, 2022, The Verge, March 4, 2022,web.archive.org/web/20220304220742/https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding, 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”.NEWS, Bissada, Masoj, AP Cancels Sale Of NFT Of Migrants Floating In Overcrowded Boat In Mediterranean, live, March 4, 2022,www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/24/ap-cancels-sale-of-nft-of-migrants-floating-in-overcrowded-boat-in-mediterranean/, February 25, 2022, Forbes, March 3, 2022,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/, NEWS, Cantor, Matthew, ‘Profiting off suffering’: AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash, live, March 4, 2022,www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/profiting-off-suffering-ap-cancels-sale-of-migrant-boat-nft-amid-backlash, February 24, 2022, The Guardian, March 4, 2022,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,

Awards received

The AP has earned 58 Pulitzer Prizes, including 35 for photography, since the award was established in 1917.WEB, Pulitzer Prizes won by the AP,www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes, December 26, 2022, Associated Press, March 2, 2021,web.archive.org/web/20210302113204/https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes, live, In May 2020, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand of the AP were honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.NEWS, AP’s Kashmir photographers win Pulitzer for lockdown coverage,www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html, Al Jazeera English, May 5, 2020, May 5, 2020, May 5, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200505073918/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html, live, The choice caused controversy,NEWS,www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html, 3 Indian photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize, Hindustan Times, May 6, 2020, Ashiq, Hussain, May 6, 2020, May 7, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200507104555/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html, live, NEWS,www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727, Kashmiri Pulitzer Prize winners caught in political debate, Outlook (Indian magazine), Outlook, May 5, 2020, May 6, 2020, Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), September 19, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200919100327/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727, live, WEB, Pulitzer Prize questions India’s legitimacy over Kashmir,www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir, National Herald, May 5, 2020, May 6, 2020, May 7, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200507142140/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir, live, 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 Article 370.WEB,www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441, Pulitzer Prize questions India’s legitimacy over Kashmir (Ld), 5 May 2020, Outlook, May 6, 2020, (IANS), May 10, 2020,web.archive.org/web/20200510020414/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441, live, The AP won an OscarNEWS, FRONTLINE and AP Documentary 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL Wins Academy Award® for “Best Documentary Feature Film”,www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-and-ap-documentary-20-days-in-mariupol-wins-academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature-film/, PBS, March 10, 2024, March 13, 2024, March 13, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240313231229/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-and-ap-documentary-20-days-in-mariupol-wins-academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature-film/, live, in 2024 for 20 Days in Mariupol, a first-person accountNEWS, LINDSEY BAHR, CHRISTOPHER WEBER, ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins best documentary Oscar, a first for AP and PBS’ ‘Frontline’,apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8, The Associated Press, March 11, 2024, March 13, 2024, March 12, 2024,web.archive.org/web/20240312132152/https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8, live, of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

See also

References

Citations

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Sources

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) online.
  • Halberstam, David. Breaking news: how the Associated Press has covered war, peace, and everything else (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007) 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. 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. online

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