2013 AP IN THE NEWS

2013 -- Coverage of Superstorm Sandy and terrorism in Africa won awards for deadline, enterprise and state reporting from the Associated Press Media Editors association for journalism excellence by AP staffers

2013 -- The Associated Press said Monday that it has settled a copyright-infringement lawsuit against digital news distributor Meltwater and that the two companies will begin developing products together

2013 -- The Associated Press has named longtime Asia-based journalist and video producer Miles Edelsten to the new position of news director for Greater China

2013 -- Four journalists told the U.N.'s most powerful body that world leaders should do more to protect reporters risking their lives to bear witness to conflicts around the globe and ensure their right to work without fear of death or intimidation

2013 -- The Associated Press has named Ian Phillips as its Mideast news director, leading all of AP's news production in print, television, photos and online for the diverse and vital region

2013 -- Alan Scher Zagier, an Associated Press reporter who has focused on higher education and crime coverage from mid-Missouri since 2005, is transferring to the cooperative's St. Louis bureau in August

2013 -- The Justice Department announced Friday that it is toughening its guidelines for subpoenaing reporters' phone records, and also raising the standard the government needs to meet before it can issue search warrants to gather reporters' email

2013 -- Genaro Armas, who led coverage of the Penn State scandal for The Associated Press and has been the correspondent in State College, Pa., for the past eight years, has been named the news agency's Wisconsin sports writer

2013 -- Desmond Butler, an AP foreign affairs reporter based in Washington, has been named chief correspondent in Istanbul, Turkey, for The Associated Press

2013 -- Paul Haven, who has covered Cuba since 2009 as The Associated Press bureau chief in Havana, has been named deputy Latin America and Caribbean editor for the news cooperative

2013 -- The Associated Press said Thursday that it has bought a minority stake in the live video service Bambuser, boosting its ability to acquire and distribute video collected by people who have witnessed news events

2013 -- The Justice Department violated its own rules when it secretly seized records for thousands of phone calls to and from journalists for The Associated Press as part of a leak investigation, the head of the company said Wednesday

2013 -- Mark Baker, photographer and acting bureau chief for The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, has been promoted to chief of bureau for Malaysia and Singapore

2013 -- Jonathan Lemire, a political reporter with the New York Daily News, has been hired by The Associated Press to cover New York City Hall

2013 -- The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconstitutional" and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the J

2013 -- The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather

2013 -- Kerry Lester, an award-winning political reporter in Illinois, has been named Supervisory Correspondent for The Associated Press in Springfield, Ill

2013 -- Michael J. Mishak, who has covered politics in California and Nevada, has been named the AP's new Miami-based politics writer

2013 -- John Daniszewski, a top editor and vice president at The Associated Press with decades-long experience covering international news, has been named to the Pulitzer Prize Board, which awards the most prestigious prizes in journalism

2013 -- John Fenton Wheeler, an Associated Press foreign correspondent who was the last U.S. reporter expelled from Cold War-era Cuba, has died. He was 88

2013 -- The names of people whose lawyers are funded by the state Senate can be made public without violating attorney-client confidentiality, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, although under some circumstances their identities should remain se

2013 -- A Pennsylvania appeals court Tuesday sided with The Associated Press in a battle over public access to Gov. Tom Corbett's calendar entries and emails, saying his legal team failed to justify the redaction of certain information

2013 -- The British Supreme Court has decided partially in favor of news-clipping service Meltwater in its long-running dispute with UK newspaper publishers, who accused Meltwater of distributing excerpts of stories online without paying any licensing fees.

2013 -- A recent court ruling that an Internet news clipping service infringed on the use of Associated Press content is a victory not only for the media but for the public, the news cooperative's CEO said Monday at the AP's annual meeting

2013 -- The Associated Press said Monday that its revenue declined slightly in 2012 because U.S. elections and the Olympics drew less interest than expected, but it was largely successful in replacing lost revenue with increased sales of video and photos

2013 -- Born in the Deep South and caught up in the romance of journalism at an early age, George McArthur was not one to let social taboos or politics interfere with a good story

2013 -- Dave O'Hara, who covered Boston sports greats from Ted Williams to Larry Bird during a 50-year career with The Associated Press, died Wednesday. He was 86

2013 -- The Associated Press has become the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades

2013 -- A federal judge concluded that an Internet news clipping service essentially resold stories from The Associated Press, saying in a decision released Thursday that the ability of news organizations to perform "an essential function of democracy" is je

2013 -- A federal judge ruled for The Associated Press on Wednesday in its lawsuit challenging the use of story excerpts by Meltwater U.S. Holdings Inc. and its Meltwater News Service

2013 -- The Associated Press on Monday promoted Vice President Sandy MacIntyre, AP's international video chief, to lead the news cooperative's global video business, including its operation in the United States

2013 -- NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has named Brian Carovillano news director for the Asia-Pacific region in a reorganization that brings all print, photo and video journalists under a single leadership

2013 -- The Newspaper Association of America, the New York Times Co. and several other newspaper companies have filed papers in support of a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press against Meltwater, a company that monitors the media for corporate customers

2013 -- Golf writer Doug Ferguson won story of the year honors and national writer Eddie Pells garnered two awards in the annual writing contest for AP staffers judged by Associated Press Sports Editors at their winter meeting

2013 -- Christina Almeida Cassidy, the AP's news editor for Georgia, has been named lead Statehouse reporter for the state

2013 -- Melanie Welte, a journalist at The Associated Press who for more than two decades wrote, edited and often directed the cooperative's breaking news report in Iowa, died Thursday. She was 53

2013 -- Adam Schreck, who has covered the economic and political forces reshaping the Middle East since 2008, has been named as Iraq bureau chief for The Associated Press

2013 -- The Associated Press and the NFL will announce the annual league awards, including Most Valuable Player, in a two-hour prime-time special on Super Bowl eve

2013 -- Julie Pace, who covered Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign and has reported on his presidency ever since, has been appointed head of The Associated Press' staff at the White House

2013 -- An Associated Press journalist who has worked as a reporter and editorial assistant at the cooperative since 2008 has been hired as a reporter for the AP's Des Moines bureau

2013 -- Roger Schneider, a veteran editor in Wisconsin who has led The Associated Press' news operations there for the past seven years, is moving across Lake Michigan to become the cooperative's news editor in Michigan

2013 -- Christopher Torchia, The Associated Press bureau chief in Turkey who has reported from five continents, has been appointed chief of bureau for AP for southern Africa