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AP names Nigeria chief of bureau

Michelle Faul (AP photo) The appointment was announced Wednesday by Africa Editor Andrew Selsky. “Michelle Faul is a wonderful writer and a meticulous reporter with deep experience who has a knack for building sources,” Selsky said. “These skills, along with her ability to grasp the nuances of events, will benefit AP’s worldwide audience as she […]

APRIL 16, 2014

AP senior vice president for revenue across the Americas to retire at year’s end

The Associated Press announced today that Senior Vice President in the Americas David Gwizdowski has decided to retire from AP at the end of the year.

SEPT. 19, 2018

Six Nations Rugby – Photo Collection

FEB. 12, 2025

Nearly 700 people were killed 100 years ago this week in the deadliest US tornado

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (AP) — From Logan School’s top floor, 11-year-old Othella Silvey should have been able to see her house easily — it was less than two blocks away. But after a monstrous tornado ripped through the Illinois town of Murphysboro on March 18, 1925, Othella saw nothing but flattened wasteland. “She couldn’t tell which […]

MARCH 17, 2025

Paul Haven nuevo Director de Noticias de AP para A Latina

Director de Noticias para América Latina y el Caribe Paul Haven (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) NUEVA YORK (AP) — Paul Haven, un veterano corresponsal internacional y mánager de diversas salas de redacción, que ha liderado las oficinas de The Associated Press en el sur de Asía, Europa y Latinoamérica, ha sido nombrado Director de Noticias para […]

MARCH 3, 2016

Carovillano is named managing editor for US news

Brian Carovillano, who has been AP’s Bangkok-based Asia-Pacific news director, today was named managing editor for U.S. news, a role that encompasses the 50 State News Reports and other key responsibilities.

NOV. 21, 2013

Fotografo de AP gana premio Garcia Marquez

Esteban Felix, an Associated Press photographer from Peru who is based in Nicaragua, shows his Gabriel García Márquez International Journalism Award for visual journalism at the awards ceremony in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013. Felix was honored for his multimedia project about sugar cane workers affected by chronic kidney disease in Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Luis […]

NOV. 20, 2013

PART II AP IMPACT Tritium leaks found at many nuke sites

By JEFF DONN BRACEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Radioactive tritium has leaked from three-quarters of U.S. commercial nuclear power sites, often into groundwater from corroded, buried piping, an Associated Press investigation shows.

APRIL 16, 2012

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

Over 100 VIPs attend UN screening of AP documentary on Russia’s siege of Ukrainian city of Mariupol

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than a hundred ambassadors, journalists and representatives of a broad spectrum of society watched a U.N. screening Monday evening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the […]

SEPT. 12, 2023

‘We don’t speculate’ How AP counts votes and calls races

A woman casts her ballot on the first day of early voting in a recently-shuttered store at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) AP will use that vote count to declare winners in some 7,000 races, so the world knows who wins not only the White House, but […]

OCT. 24, 2020