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AP Lifestyles now available online
AP Lifestyles Online officially launches in July, making available video, interactives and slideshows to accompany text and photos covering all aspects of people's daily lives. Subscribers can watch a video on making the perfect cocktail or listen to AP Fashion Writer Samantha Critchell critique red carpet fashion or see a slideshow on how to crochet. Subscribers also receive text in an easy-to-launch turnkey service with AP Exchange, XML (NNTP) or Atom delivery.
AP Lifestyles Online is produced by a core staff of eight based in New York, with reports from AP staffers across the nation and around the globe. It offers timeless content as well as timely content off the news every weekday.
For more information, contact your local chief of bureau or Lifestyles Editor Diane Davis at ddavis@ap.org.
The Associated Press launches a Q&A initiative, called ‘Ask AP’
The Associated Press launched a new Q&A initiative, called “Ask AP,” where AP journalists will answer written questions from the public about the news. Readers are invited to send questions to the e-mail address newsquestions@ap.org, with “Ask AP” in the subject line. The answers will appear in periodic installments of the new Q&A column, both online and in newspapers. Each column will end with a call for additional questions AP journalists should pursue.
For the first column, the AP received questions from around the United States on a wide variety of topics. Eric Carvin, a supervisor in the news department who is overseeing the initiative along with Deputy Managing Editor Tom Kent, assigned reporters and editors to answer questions that fell within their areas of expertise. The column was made available Jan. 18, for use by AP members both online and in print.
For more information, visit: http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_011808a.html or visit the AP corporate Web site at http://www.ap.org/pages/about/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.
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