Associated Press (AP)

Associated Press (AP) is a USA news agency covering National News.

The Associated Press is a not-for-profit cooperative owned by its 1,550 U.S. daily newspaper members. The AP has about 15,000 newspaper, radio and television station subscribers around the world.

The AP claims that on any given day, more than half the world‘s population sees news from AP, via print, radio, television and the Internet.

The Associated Press traces its roots back to May 1846, when an agreement between five New York City newspapers was made to share incoming reports from the Mexican-American War.

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Associated Press (AP) Appoints Mary Junck Board Chairman
-- January 26, 2012: The chairman and CEO of Lee Enterprises, Inc., which recently announced plans to exit bankruptcy, succeeds William Dean Singleton, chairman of MediaNews Group, Inc., who finished a five-year term as chairman. “The...

Associated Press (AP) CEO Tom Curley Announces Retirement
-- Curley, president and CEO of the Associated Press (AP) since 2003, will step down this year, the organization announced on January 23, 2012. The AP board of directors has already undertaken a search for Curley's replacement. “I told...

Associated Press First to Open Full-Time Bureau in North Korea
-- January 16, 2012: The bureau, staffed with full time employees and headquartered in the capital of Pyongyang, will supply text and photo content. Along with the Associated Press (AP)'s video newsgathering arm, Associated Press Television News...

The Associated Press (AP) appointed Eric Carvin social media editor, effective January 2012. He previously served as news producer of Nerve Center there. Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, January 9, 2012

AP, 28 News Organizations Launch NewsRight Licensing Company
-- NewsRight, a spinoff of the Associated Press (AP)'s News Licensing Group (NLG), officially began operations on January 5, 2011. The AP and 28 other investors joined forces in what is described as an effort "to support original news...

Associated Press (AP) Names Top Stories for 2011
-- The killing of Osama bin Laden took the top spot on the list, followed by Japan's triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. Arab Spring, the EU Fiscal Crisis and the Penn State sex abuse scandal also made the...

New AP Tool Automatically Edits Your Writing
-- AP StyleGuard works with Microsoft Word to provide automatic checking of documents according to the Associated Press (AP)'s style guidelines -- for, naturally, a price. A one-year subscription to StyleGuard costs $59.99,...

Press Club Demands Investigation into Attacks on Journalists
-- The National Press Club called on the Indian government to investigate charges that reporters were beaten in Indian-controlled Kashmir and to prevent similar attacks from occurring again. NPC president Mark Hamrick issued a statement to...

Associated Press, Newspapers Join Forces with Mobile Coupons
-- According to a report published September 18, 2011 by the Guardian newspaper's paidContent.org, the Associated Press (AP) and 40 newspapers have teamed up to create an app within an app: "The new mobile initiative, dubbed “iCircular,”...

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