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AP Annual Meeting and Luncheon | May 7, 2007
New York Marriott Marquis Times Square

listen to the AudiocasT OF ANNUAL MEETING
listen to the AudiocasT OF ANNUAL LUNCHEON
Prepared Remarks
AP STORIES ABOUT THE MEETING
PRess Releases
• ANNUAL REPORT
• Breaking News Video


>>AP Annual Meeting
Live from Baghdad
A live-satellite conversation with Gen. DAVID PETRAEUS,
commander of U.S. forces in Iraq. Interviewed by JOHN DANISZEWSKI, International Editor, and KIMBERLY HEFLING, Washington-based regional reporter for Pennsylvania.

IntroDUction
TOM CURLEY, President and CEO

Report of the Chairman:
BURL OSBORNE, Chairman
Report to the Membership

Report of the President:
TOM CURLEY, President and CEO

Breaking News Video

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>>AP Annual Luncheon

What America Needs
A discussion with Eliot Spitzer, governor of New York,
and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas




Presiding
BURL OSBORNE, Chairman

Welcome
BURL OSBORNE, Chairman

United States National AntheM
GERALDINE MCMILLIAN

Invocation
IMAM KHALID LATIF, NYPD chaplains unit

DiscuSsion
ELIOT SPITZER, Governor of New York
MIKE HUCKABEE, Former Governor of Arkansas
BURL OSBORNE, Moderator

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>Prepared Remarks:

Read the prepared remarks of AP CEO Tom Curley for AP's 2007 Annual Meeting


>AP Stories:

Spitzer, Huckabee say traditional reporting, fact checking important in age of Internet blogs

U.S. commander in Iraq 'very concerned' by report on combat ethics, promises new effort

William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group Inc. succeeds Burl Osborne as AP board chairman

AP chief says rates will remain frozen for a second year; proposes fee restructuring


>Press Releases:

William Dean Singleton of MediaNews Group Inc. succeeds Burl Osborne as AP board chairman

AP to distribute images from historic EBONY and JET photo collection

AP to restructure pricing, offer suite of digital services to members; Assessments frozen for 2008

Four incumbents, three new members elected to AP board


>>Annual Report:

Annual Report PDF 2.6mb

FInancial Report PDF 388KB


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