2013 PRESS RELEASES

2013 -- To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected in “Vietnam: The Real War” (Abrams; Oct. 1,

2013 -- AP Images, the commercial photo unit of the Associated Press, today announced a worldwide photo production and distribution agreement with the 2013 Guinness International Champions Cup and its business and marketing arm, Relevent Sports

2013 -- Meltwater, the leading provider of online intelligence solutions, and The Associated Press today announced they have entered into an agreement to develop new and innovative products based on AP’s world class content and Meltwater’s deep technical exp

2013 -- One America News Network, the country's newest cable news network, is powering its production with the AP ENPS news production system. Owned by Herring Broadcasting, the San Diego, Calif., based network launched earlier this month

2013 -- Associated Press Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll addresses the UN Security Council on the protection of journalists. Read the full text of her prepared remarks.

2013 -- Associated Press journalists on every continent can now stream real-time video content back to its London production hub in full, broadcast-quality high definition

2013 -- AP announces five stand-up locations available for royal baby coverag

2013 -- Gannett’s WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tenn., and Intermountain West’s KSNV-TV, Las Vegas,  are now producing news with the new AP ENPS news production system. Both stations went live with AP ENPS at the end of June

2013 -- Studie unterstreicht die hohe Bedeutung von Videoclips für Online-Nachrichtenseite

2013 -- The Associated Press today released a major redesign of its popular, award-winning app, AP Mobile, which improves users’ ability to access AP breaking news from around the globe and local content from more than 1,100 contributing news providers

2013 -- LONDON -- The Associated Press today announced the purchase of a minority stake in Bambuser, the pioneering live video service that allows users to broadcast, watch and share live video through mobile phones and computers

2013 -- Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt addresses phone records seizure and safeguards at the National Press Club. Read the full text of his prepared remarks.

2013 -- Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt will outline ways to protect newsgathering against government interference, in the wake of the Department of Justice’s sweeping seizure of AP phone records, in a speech on June 19 at the National Press C

2013 -- The Associated Press and Google today announced the second recipients of a national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the wor

2013 -- The AP Stylebook is marking its 60th anniversary with the 2013 print edition, which includes more than 90 new or updated entries and broadens the guidelines on social media

2013 -- The Associated Press director of Asia sales, Maria Ronson, has been promoted to vice president, Asia sales. She will be responsible for all AP international licensing revenue across Asia Pacific

2013 -- The Associated Press has appointed Chris Waiting as director of business development Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Waiting will join the EMEA and Asia management team and be responsible for supporting Daisy Veerasingham, Head of AP's Video Bu

2013 -- Belo Corp.’s 16 television, cable news operations and Washington DC Bureau are upgrading their news production systems to AP ENPS, giving their staffs integrated, industry-leading capabilities for getting local news on the air, the Web, mobile device

2013 -- The Associated Press today announced that the award-winning AP Mobile application will now feature audio news updates, powered by Stitcher. These 3-minute top news summaries will be updated every hour, giving users another way of experiencing AP’s po

2013 -- The Associated Press has unveiled a new platform to give customers better access to its vast collection of news and archival images, one of the largest in the world

2013 -- KSNV-TV, the Las Vegas-based flagship of Intermountain West Communications Company, has picked AP ENPS as the station’s new multiplatform news production system as it prepares to replace most of its syndicated programming with local news

2013 -- John Daniszewski, a top news executive at the Associated Press with deep experience in the coverage of major world news events, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today

2013 -- Two Chambers Communications TV stations in Oregon are now producing their news on AP ENPS. KEZI-TV in Eugene and KDRV-TV in Medford are connected as one virtual newsroom to allow for collaboration and content sharing, made easy with AP ENPS

2013 -- The Associated Press, in collaboration with Green Light Learning Tools, has released a new educational e-book on space exploration

2013 -- Research shows importance of video news within online news sites

2013 -- The Associated Press was honored Monday for its international coverage, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography as seen in gripping images of the Syrian civil war and being named a finalist in international reporting for its firsthan

2013 -- Three new members and five incumbents were elected to the board of directors of The Associated Press in results announced today at the annual meeting of the news cooperative in Orlando, Fla

2013 -- The Associated Press is increasing video news coverage across America, doubling the number of video journalists and restructuring its Washington production hub

2013 -- The Associated Press today introduced a new U.S. video portal that delivers both broadcast and online video together on a single platform for the first time

2013 -- The Associated Press today announced the launch of the new AP ENPS Mobile iOS app for Apple iPhones and iPads. The AP ENPS Mobile app makes accessing the power of AP ENPS from the field quicker and easier by allowing users to stay logged in at all ti

2013 -- Erskine Bowles, who served as White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and later co-chaired President Barack Obama's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, will address members of The Associated Press at th

2013 -- The AP on March 30 formally opened a bureau in Yangon, Myanmar, the first international news agency permitted to operate full time in the country, which has relaxed its longtime restrictions on media amid a wave of democratic reforms

2013 -- AP photographer Bernat Armangue took top honors in the China International Press Photo Competition (CHIPP), winning Picture of the Year and a gold prize for “Goodbye in Gaza,” a moving image of a Palestinian man kissing the hand of a dead relative in

2013 -- In clear and sweeping victory for the Associated Press and for the public, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District, in Manhattan, ruled Wednesday that Meltwater News infringed the use of AP content. The court granted AP’s motion for summary

2013 -- The U.S. District Court for the Southern District, in Manhattan, ruled today that Meltwater News misappropriated AP content. The court granted AP’s motion for summary judgment in the suit, denying Meltwater’s

2013 -- The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research surveys reveals surprising new facts and deeper understanding of how lower-wage workers and their employers view lower-wage jobs and opportunities for advancing the careers of lower-wage wo

2013 -- Associated Press international video chief Sandy MacIntyre has been promoted to also lead the news cooperative’s burgeoning video business in the United States

2013 -- The Associated Press will examine the increasing diversity of the United States and an impending historic shift in which racial and ethnic minorities will become the majority, in a series of stories set to begin March 18

2013 -- AP West Africa Bureau Chief Rukmini Callimachi has won the Distinguished Writing Award for Nondeadline Writing from the American Society of News Editors, whose annual honors for reporting and photography were announced today

2013 -- The AP unveiled a sequel to its popular 2012 sport video at Sportel in Rio de Janeiro, outlining how the "second screen" experience — combining TV and mobile devices — has become a new reality in the world of sport

2013 -- The Associated Press today added an entry on mental illness to the AP Stylebook

2013 -- The Associated Press’ pioneering work in data journalism is being awarded a grant from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the second time

2013 -- The AP Standards Center today issued the following advisory to editors at our member news organizations

2013 -- Pope Benedict XVI officially enters retirement on Thursday, Feb. 28, the first pontiff to step down in 600 years, and Associated Press journalists from around the globe will be covering his final day in text, photos, video and on social media

2013 -- Eric Charbonneau, a renowned entertainment photographer with over 25 years of experience, today signed with Invision, the multimedia entertainment agency jointly owned by The Associated Press and some of the world's leading entertainment photographer

2013 -- Powerful news images from the Associated Press taken in such varied places as North Korea, Syria, India, Ohio and Colorado were among those that won top prizes in the 2013 Pictures of the Year International contest

2013 -- The Associated Press today announced the release of a groundbreaking new version of ENPS, the world’s most-installed newsroom production software

2013 -- The Associated Press and TVN Agency (TVN) today announced a two year extension to the newsgathering cooperation that began in 2009.  The Warsaw-based agency will supply video news stories from Poland for further distribution to AP clients worldwide

2013 -- The New York Times Co., Advance Publications Inc., Gannett Co., McClatchy Co., the Newspaper Association of America and BurrellesLuce have filed an amicus brief in support of The Associated Press in its infringement suit against Meltwater

2013 -- This following entry was added today to the AP Stylebook Online and also will appear in the new print edition and Stylebook Mobile, published in the spring

2013 -- Associated Press photojournalists who’ve worked tirelessly to document the civil war in Syria and conflict in Gaza, among many other stories last year, won top prizes in the distinguished World Press Photo competition

2013 -- Brian Scanlon, director of the AP Election Services portfolio, has been promoted to an expanded role, adding oversight of AP’s business and financial products

2013 -- A months-long probe into match-fixing in international soccer is being published over four days, starting Feb. 12

2013 -- Ken Detlet, a veteran of the digital advertising industry who most recently led sales and marketing for Mashable, has joined the AP as vice president for digital advertising strategy and sales

2013 -- The Associated Press is bringing the red carpet to the Xbox 360® entertainment system from Microsoft

2013 -- Matt Sedensky, an award-winning correspondent for the Associated Press whose national beat includes issues of aging, has been named the first recipient of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Fellowship on the Economics of Agi

2013 -- The Associated Press and picture alliance, a subsidiary of German press agency dpa, today announced an exclusive distribution agreement in Germany and Austria

2013 -- In a memo to AP staff, Managing Editor for State News Kristin Gazlay recounts how one reporter in Traverse City, Mich., and another based in New Orleans used freedom of information law and their own interviewing skills over many weeks to document how

2013 -- President Barack Obama’s national health care reform is the biggest addition to the nation’s social safety net since the advent of Medicare nearly 50 years ago. The Affordable Care Act is estimated to cover at least 30 million of the nearly 50 millio

2013 -- Political, corporate and thought leaders from more than 100 countries will convene  in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 23 - 27, at the World Economic Forum, and AP journalists will be there providing comprehensive coverage across  all formats for its global

2013 -- The Associated Press will launch a series exploring changes wrought by the Great Recession with reports documenting the downturn’s profound impact on jobs that support a broad middle class in the United States, Europe and other developed countries

2013 -- From the swearing-in ceremony to the parade along Pennsylvania Avenue to the celebratory evening balls, the Associated Press will provide full text, photo, video, interactive and social media coverage of Monday’s 57th presidential inauguration and fe

2013 -- A consortium of the world’s largest news agencies, commercial licensing companies and commercial audiovisual archives has today called on the UK Government to rethink its plans to weaken UK copyright law and its use of secondary legislation

2013 -- NEW YORK -- The AP, in collaboration with Green Light Learning Tools, is bringing the Oval Office to the iPad

2013 -- DSA Media Group will work to promote college football and basketball sports brands for the Associated Press under a deal announced today

2013 -- Invision, the multimedia entertainment agency jointly owned by The Associated Press and some of the world's leading entertainment photographers, will shoot film festivals, premieres and a worldwide array of other marquee industry events for The Holly

2013 -- The night before the two top teams kick off Super Bowl XLVII, the National Football League will salute its best players, performances and plays from the 2012 season with a star-studded football and entertainment  event - “2nd Annual NFL Honors” - a t

2013 -- The Associated Press announced today that Samsung will be the first company to provide sponsored tweets to the news agency's primary Twitter account, https://twitter.com/ap.

2013 -- The following memo was sent to staff by AP Senior Managing Editor for U.S. News Michael Oreskes

2013 -- The following memo was sent to staff by AP Washington Bureau Chief Sally Buzbee on Jan. 4, 2013

2013 -- To help with spelling and usage of the terms for the Jan. 21 inauguration of President Barack Obama, the AP compiled a style guide of essential words, phrases and definitions