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AP ENPS wins Technology and Engineering Emmy Award

The Associated Press on Monday won a Technology and Engineering Emmy® Award in the Newsroom Computer System category for its industry leading ENPS newsroom production system.

JAN. 28, 2021

AP reporter awarded fellowship on economics of aging and work

CHICAGO — Matt Sedensky, an award-winning correspondent for the Associated Press whose national beat includes issues of aging, has been named the first recipient of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Fellowship on the Economics of Aging and Work.

FEB. 5, 2013

Black journalist group honors AP’s Errin Haines Whack

AP reporter Errin Haines Whack. (AP Photo) NBC 10 reporter Aundrea Cline-Thomas received the award for broadcast. Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Sofiya Ballin won the honor for online journalists. The award is given for work considered extraordinary in depth, scope or significance to African-Americans or other black people of African descent. The 39-year-old Whack joined the AP’s Philadelphia […]

JUNE 14, 2017

Shohei Ohtani wins 3rd AP Male Athlete of the Year award, tying Michael Jordan for 1 shy of record

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is keeping elite company. The Japanese superstar caps 2024 by winning The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the third time, tying him with basketball great Michael Jordan. He trails only four-time winners Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods and LeBron James. “I’m very honored,” Ohtani said through translator […]

DEC. 23, 2024

AP and TVN Agency announce continued cooperation on newsgathering

The Associated Press and TVN Agency (TVN) today announced a two year extension to the newsgathering cooperation that began in 2009.  The Warsaw-based agency will supply video news stories from Poland for further distribution to AP clients worldwide.

FEB. 27, 2013

AP plans extensive coverage as pope begins retirement

Pope Benedict XVI officially enters retirement on Thursday, Feb. 28, the first pontiff to step down in 600 years, and Associated Press journalists from around the globe will be covering his final day in text, photos, video and on social media.

FEB. 27, 2013

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Gillian Wong named APs news director for greater China

In this Jan. 10, 2016, photo, Gillian Wong poses for a photo in Beijing, China. Wong, a veteran journalist who has spent more than a decade reporting on China and elsewhere in Asia, has been named Greater China news director for The Associated Press. She will oversee coverage in video, text and photos, across a […]

JAN. 11, 2016

AP opens full news bureau in Myanmar

The Associated Press journalists, clockwise from left, Yadana Htun, Khin Maung Win, Aye Aye Win and Zin Chit Aung are seated at AP’s new bureau in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, April 1, 2013. The Associated Press has become the first international news agency to open a bureau in Myanmar since a reformist government took power two […]

APRIL 1, 2013

AP, dpa to launch new Arabic news service 

The Associated Press and German press agency dpa today announced they will launch an Arabic news wire comprising text stories from both news agencies.   The news wire, called the Global Arabic News Service, will provide more than 200 Arabic language news stories from AP and dpa each day, from the Middle East, Europe, the U.S. […]

OCT. 10, 2024

AP photographer: ‘I composed myself enough to shoot pictures’

When a gunman attacked Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at a photo exhibit in Ankara Monday, AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici didn’t put down his camera. Instead, he captured images of the gunman that immediately went viral.

How AP calls a race at poll close

On Super Tuesday, AP declared Bernie Sanders the winner in California as soon as polls closed at 8 p.m. PT— one of four such race calls made that night as polls closed in a state.