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Getting AP Images Accounts

Under changes made to AP's photo services effective Jan. 1, most newspapers should abandon the old 'one-account-for-everyone' method and get individual AP Images accounts. How to do that? Send a request via email to: api_member_support@ap.org  or call 877-836-9477.

Contributing to AP

Rule of thumb: If your story had happened elsewhere in the state or region, would you use it in your newscast? If the answer is yes, offer the story toThe Associated Press:

Minneapolis bureau:
Email: apminneapolis@ap.org

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Train wrecks, airplane crashes, drownings, fatal auto accidents (if there are multiple victims or unusual circumstances) and unusual accidental deaths.
– Meetings where action of regional or statewide interest is taken or where a prominent person speaks.
– Riots, demonstrations, strikes.
– Major fires (involves loss of life, public disruption or destruction of a structure/site known statewide), explosions, oil or other chemical spills.
--Unusual bank robberies (exceptionally violent, hostages taken, serial robber, etc.)
–Weather news, including ice and hail storms, heavy snows, damaging rains and floods, record heat and cold, tornadoes.
– Human interest stories. The odd, the offbeat, the heart-warming.... Read more:

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From time to time we run into evidence that many members believe AP staff is closely monitoring member Web sites for stories to pick up for the wire. They think it's no longer necessary to proactively send their stories to AP as they did before the Internet.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly all of AP's daily newspapers, radio stations and TV stations have sites, and it's simply impossible for AP to check all of them throughout the day. That means that some stories that should be in the state report wind up being overlooked.

The best way to make sure your stories and photos are available to other members is to send them without being asked. As always, stories may be e-mailed to mnpe@aporg. Photos can be sent to our state photos operation in New York via FTP or e-mail (statephotos@ap.org). If you send a photo by e-mail, make sure to call to point it out to editors there: 888-AP-FOTOS.

Remember: Members are the key to a wide and deep state report.

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