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08/29/2003
AP to Provide Enhanced Election Services for Newspapers, Broadcasters
and Web site
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press announced today a new series
of expanded election news packages and hosted Web services
for 2004 to provide customized pre-election and election coverage
to newspaper and broadcast members, online customers and to
political organizations and special interest groups.
The expanded election packages are offered to complement
existing AP election services and will be available in January
2004, or earlier if necessary to cover the first caucuses
and primaries.
The new customizable choices offer turnkey packages or stand-alone
components of all comprehensive pre-election content and election-night
results. The election coverage is available in flexible formats
– including ANPA satellite feed, XML feed and hosted
Web and desktop delivery – which make it easy to integrate
with print, broadcast and online news services as well as
desktop applications and intranets.
"We've expanded our election services to offer readers
and viewers more options in how they receive AP election coverage,"
says Tom Jory, AP's director of elections tabulations. "The
broadening of our services comes at a good time, with a wide-open
race for the Democratic presidential nomination already under
way, and both houses of Congress up for grabs."
"No other news organization covers elections as thoroughly
and accurately as The Associated Press." Jory says, "As
always, we'll cover all races on every state's ballot, through
the legislature, as well as selected interesting and hotly
contested elections at the district and local levels."
Jory says new election packages will range from broadcast
crawls and text delimited results to an AP-hosted online service.
AP's pre-election coverage includes candidate bios, headshots,
political daybooks, campaign finance information, voting records
and more. Pre-election coverage also includes breaking political
news and photos. Pre-election content will be available from
the first causes and primaries through the general election
in November.
AP's election results coverage offers timely results from
general elections, presidential and state primaries and runoff
elections where they occur. Trend tables will track shifts
in party composition for Congress, state houses and state
legislatures. Results from newsworthy races that are not traditionally
covered will be included. Full results from every national
race, all presidential primaries, and all statewide and state
legislature primary and general elections, will be provided
beginning in January through the 2004 general election.
Contact Jack Stokes
212-621-1720
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