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AP staffers both current and retired contributed to a special
issue of "The Digital Journalist" honoring Pulitzer Prize-winning
photographer Eddie Adams.
Visit the online magazine's tribute to Adams at http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/adams_intro.html
Adams, who had been suffering from ALS, died Sept. 19. He was remembered
at a special service in New York City at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 21 at
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan. Read the AP story.
| Noguchi Notecards To celebrate 64 years of Isamu Noguchi's sculpture at 50 Rock, The Company Store is selling notecards with historic AP pictures. |
MEMORIES of WORLD WAR II
Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press
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33rd St. - We're in business!
It's official: the entire New York staff is now working under one roof.
Monday marked the first time in decades that all New York staffers could
use one mailing address: 450 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001.(August
5, 2004)
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of the new space
Another 50 Rock Farewell
World Services General Executive Otto Doelling stands in the empty newsroom at 50 Rockefeller Plaza, July 19, 2004, after the AP news operation was moved to new headquarters at 450 West 33rd Street. (July 22, 2004)
Photos of Otto Doelling
Former AP space writer Howard Benedict retires from the Astronaut Scholarship Association
Benedict, who was The Associated Press' senior aerospace writer for more than three decades, is retiring as executive director of the Astronaut Scholarship Association. (August 6, 2004)
Special Correspondent Dan Haney Retires
Daniel Q. Haney, the AP’s award-winning Medical Editor and Special Correspondent, has retired after 34 years, ending a legendary career that made his byline one of the most recognizable in journalism. (June 23, 2004)
Photos from Haney's retirement party
A look at World War II through photographs in AP book, exhibit
The exhibit "Memories of World War II: Photographs from the Archives of The Associated Press" opened to the public at Washington's Union Station May 24, 2004.
Photos from the exhibit kickoff
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Photos stir memories for veteran
View and purchase photos from the book and exhibit
Photos from the Apollo 11 Mission
The Dallas Morning News recently reprinted photos from the Apollo 11 mission and retired Photographer Bob Jarboe once again pondered a decision he made 35 years ago.
Remembering Maasaki Iwasa
Former COC Neal Ulevich reminisces about his colleague, the former Regional Communications Manager based in Tokyo.
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Iwasa obituary
Jordan Retires, but not 'Hanging Up The Cameras'
Chances are that if you carried a camera through the state of North Carolina in the past three decades, you were lucky enough to shake the hand of AP Raleigh staffer Bob Jordan. The ultimate professional and tireless advocate for his members, Bob Jordan retired from The Associated Press April 9. (May 6, 2004)
Steve Miller, who served The Associated Press as chief of bureau in Germany during the tumultuous years of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Balkan wars and Germany's reunification, will retire in June, Jim Donna, senior vice president and director of human resources announced Tuesday.(April 28, 2004)
Pulling Rank
American Journalism Review publishes a letter from retired AP vice president Claude Erbsen
Balaban Retires from AP Israel
Israel Business Manager and 2001 Gramling Spirit Award winner Ilana Balaban retires after 36 years of AP service. (March 9, 2004)
Photos of Ilana BalabanBangkok photo/administration assistant Pisit Kampangnin retires after three decades with the AP. (March 9, 2004)
Photos of Pisit Kampangnin
Artifacts and collections are being gathered together, organized into record groups, and prepared for permanent retention in the newly formed AP Corporate Archives.
(Feb 25, 2004)
Photos from the ArchivesFormer India Bureau Chief Watson Sims Recalls AP’s Delhi Digs
March 21, 1961 was a memorable day for AP in India. That was the day United News of India, began operation, using AP exclusively for foreign news. It was also the day that AP was evicted and tossed lock, stock and typewriter out on the street. (Feb. 20, 2004)
Photos of Sims and the bureauStill Writing about Television
Jerry Buck, former TV writer in LA who just published a murder mystery titled "A Blood Red Rose," tells about writing fiction about a very public industry. (Feb. 20, 2004).
A Letter from Guangzhou, China
Retired bureau chief Arnold Zeitlin, now a consultant and teacher in an English-language journalism program at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in Guangzhou, China tells about the break-through fall semester when, for the first time, students were able to sit in a news lab classroom in front of PCs and write keyboard copy on deadline. (Feb. 17, 2004)
Myron Belkind is Retiring
It's an end of an era. Forty years as a reporter, editor and AP executive on three continents. He was in charge of two of AP's largest and most important operations on both sides of the planet. First in London and then in Tokyo since 2001.(Feb.9, 2004)
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To the AP Staff from Myron Belkind
To the AP Staff from Jim Donna
Photos of Myron Belkin
Terry Franich worked for AP from 1966 to 2004. Many people from a variety of departments gathered to celebrate Terry's contribution to AP and to wish him well in his retirement. (Feb. 9, 2004)
Photos of Terry FranichMax Desfor turns 90
Retired Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer Max Desfor celebrated his 90th birthday party at his home in Maryland.(Nov. 9, 2003)
Photo of Max DesforBogata's El Tiempo profiles Claude Erbsen
The September 21st issue of El Tiempo, marks the retirement of former vice president and director of AP World Services Claude Erbsen with a story focusing highlights of his 43 year career at The Associated Press. A native of Trieste, Italy, Erbsen is fluent in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese and speaks Russian and German. The El Tiempo story is written in Spanish so although Claude will be able to read it, other Cleartime readers may need a translation. (Sept. 21, 2003)
If you'd like to read a translation, click here to learn how to do it online. Note: online translation services are never exact, but it should work well enough to allow you to get the main points of the article.
Feinsilber Reviews Walter Mears' "DEADLINES PAST"
AP Washington writer Mike Feinsilber writes about his colleague Walter R. Mears and reviews his new book "DEADLINES PAST." Feinsilber writes that Mears was for five decades "the paragon of wire service reporters." An admitted Mears admirer, Feinsilber describes what happens when the retired Pulitzer Prize Winner gets to say what he really thinks in "DEADLINES PAST, Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story." (Sept 20, 2003)
Photos of Walter MearsObservations from DEADLINES PAST
On covering Richard Nixon's last campaign, Walter R. Mears writes: "I never met so many people who later wound up in prison." Read more observations from his new book "DEADLINES PAST, Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporters story." (Sept 20, 2003)
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