AP in the News

Associated Press reporter Phillip Rawls poses for a photo outside of the Alabama State Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015, in Montgomery, Ala. Rawls is retiring as the longest-serving member of Alabama’s Capitol press corps. Rawls’ tenure spanned seven Alabama governors, from George Wallace to Robert Bentley. He covered 35 regular sessions of the Legislature. The 63-year-old Rawls developed a reputation for fairness and accuracy during a 40-year career, nearly all of it spent with AP covering politics and government in Montgomery. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Associated Press newsman Matthew J. Franjola is shown somewheree in southeast Asia, 1973. (AP Photo)

This May 13, 2006 photo provided by his daughter, Britta Dysart, shows former Associated Press journalist William Heath in San Diego. Heath, an award-winning journalist and former bureau chief for the AP who oversaw news coverage during some of Latin America's most turbulent times, has died at the age 78. Heath, who headed AP bureaus in Peru, Venezuela and Argentina, died Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, at a New Mexico hospital as a result of complications following colon cancer surgery, family members said. He retired from AP in 1998 and had lived in New Mexico for the past few years. An Idaho native, Heath graduated from the University of New Mexico and was first hired by the Albuquerque bureau of AP in 1961 for a temporary assignment that kicked off a decades-long career with the news organization. (AP Photo/Courtesy Britta Dysart)

In this April 2, 2013 photo, Associated Press Editor Peter Prengaman poses for a photo, in Atlanta. Prengaman, a veteran cross-format journalist and news manager who has reported from a dozen countries for The Associated Press, has been named news editor for the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

In this April 2, 2013 photo, Associated Press Editor Peter Prengaman poses for a photo, in Atlanta. Prengaman, a veteran cross-format journalist and news manager who has reported from a dozen countries for The Associated Press, has been named news editor for the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

In this Oct. 25, 2010 photo, Juan Carlos Llorca smiles during a press conference in Guatemala City. Llorca, El Paso correspondent for The Associated Press and a veteran reporter in his native Guatemala, has died. He collapsed at his home in El Paso on Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, and was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to his sister, Maria Jimena Llorca. A cause of death was pending. He was 40. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)