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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania appeals court on Monday ordered the release of documents sealed in the criminal case against former Penn State administrators over their handling of child sex abuse complaints about former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. The three-judge Superior Court panel’s unanimous decision concerned many of the more than 200 records […]
JUNE 4, 2018
Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment writer, Los Angeles, for obtaining an exclusive walkthrough of new procedures by the film academy and accounting firm PwC to avoid another envelope flub like the one that resulted in the incorrect naming of the best picture winner at last year’s Oscars. http://bit.ly/2EywzPo
FEB. 2, 2018
The approach to Vatican Correspondent Nicole Winfield came from a member of a task force that had investigated care at Italy’s foremost pediatric facility, known as “the pope’s hospital.” The contact feared that serious concerns raised by the task force hadn’t been addressed two years later. That tip, in late 2015, set the AP on […]
JULY 14, 2017
ROME (AP) — When doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase children’s hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the Vatican responded by ordering up a secret in-house investigation. The diagnosis: The original mission of “the pope’s hospital” had been lost and was “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children.” […]
JULY 5, 2017
Baton Rouge-based reporter Michael Kunzelman was reporting on the police killing of a black man outside a convenience store last summer when a source called to encourage him to look into a case in front of a federal judge that had been mysteriously reassigned. It wasn’t the easiest time to be chasing down tips: the […]
APRIL 21, 2017
A face transplant: It’s one of the rarest of surgeries, a medically complex, emotionally fraught procedure – and a challenge to cover as a truly revealing news story and not just a sensational headline. That’s why AP National Writer Sharon Cohen’s narrative of the first face transplant performed at the renowned Mayo Clinic was so […]
FEB. 24, 2017
The auto industry and Hollywood entertainment could hardly be more different worlds. But for AP reporters covering them, they have this in common: Building sources is essential. Last week, Tom Krisher, a Detroit-based auto writer, and Lynn Elber, the TV writer in Los Angeles, demonstrated the value of great beat reporting. Both scored scoops that […]
DEC. 2, 2016
A couple embraces in the street as the flag of France hangs from a restaurant ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 21, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
On Nov. 8, it’s The Associated Press that will be tabulating election results for national, state and local races and distributing them to members and customers worldwide.
David Dishneau, correspondent, Mid-Atlantic/Hagerstown, Maryland, for an exclusive story saying Maryland’s prison system would change procedures for notifying victims about inmate deaths. The change came after a slain woman’s son received an email saying the killer had been released, when in fact he had died. http://bit.ly/2dn6DKa
OCT. 7, 2016
The AP reporters, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan, will share the award for foreign reporting with Ian Urbina of The New York Times, for a separate series portraying widespread lawlessness at sea. The awards were announced Sunday by Long Island University. Journalists who wrote about segregated schools, killings by police officers […]
FEB. 15, 2016
Joe Danborn (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) In his new job, Danborn, who grew up in the Denver area, will oversee news coverage for Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. He’ll be based in Denver. The appointment was announced Thursday by Interim West Editor Anna Johnson, who oversees news for 13 states west of the Rockies. “Joe is a […]
FEB. 11, 2016
