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The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information
system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television
and online customers with coverage in all media and news in
all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization
in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics,
audio and video.
AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing
distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability
and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and
informed. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with
more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 worldwide
bureaus. AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members.
They elect a board of directors that
directs the cooperative.
AP supplies a steady stream of news around the clock to its
domestic members, international subscribers and commercial
customers. It has the industry's most sophisticated digital
photo network, a 24-hour continuously updated online news
service, a state-of-the-art television news service and one
of the largest radio networks in the United States. It also
has a commercial digital photo archive, a photo library housing
more than 10 million images and provides advertising management
services.
AP has received 49 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news
organization in the categories for which it can compete. It
has 30 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization.
The Associated Press is the essential global news network,
delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world
to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today
is the largest and most trusted source of independent news
and information. On any given day, more than half the world's
population sees news from AP.
Figures
243 bureaus in 97 countries.
1,700 U.S. daily, weekly, non-English
and college newspapers.
5,000 radio and television outlets taking AP services.
850 AP Radio News audio affiliates.
550 International broadcasters who receive AP's global video
news service, APTN, and SNTV, a sports joint venture video
service.
121 number of countries
served by AP
4 languages in which AP sends news. The report is translated
into many more languages by international subscribers.
4,100 AP editorial,
communications and administrative employees worldwide.
3,000 of AP's worldwide staff are journalists.
49 Pulitzer Prizes, including 30 for photography.
The AP news report is:
24 hours a day
7 days a week
(Updated April. 16, 2007)
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