Facts
The Associated Press (“AP”) is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. On any given day, more than half the world’s population sees news from the AP. Founded in 1846, the AP today is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering. The AP considers itself to be the backbone of the world’s information system, serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television, and online customers with coverage in text, photos, graphics, audio and video.

Headquartered in New York, the 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. About 3,700 employees – two-thirds of them newsgatherers – work in more than 300 locations worldwide.

The 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 that is one of the world's largest collections of historical and contemporary imagery.

The AP has received 49 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in the categories for which it can compete. It also has 30 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization.

Neither privately owned nor government-funded, the AP is a not-for-profit news cooperative, owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members. They elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.

Figures
300-plus locations worldwide.

3,700 AP editorial, communications and administrative employees worldwide.

Two-thirds of AP's worldwide staff are newsgatherers.

Journalists staff every statehouse in the United States.

49 Pulitzer Prizes, including 30 for photography.

The AP news report is:

24 hours a day

7 days a week

(Updated March 2011)