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AP calls for greater White House access in New York Times op-ed

UPDATED: Dec. 11, 2013 Santiago Lyon, AP vice president and director of photography, wrote this opinion piece published in The New York Times: Obama’s Orwellian Image Control.

Anna Johnson named Washington bureau chief

Executive Editor Julie Pace and Head of Global News Gathering Paul Haven announced today that Anna Johnson, AP news director for Europe and Africa, has been named Washington bureau chief.

Christian aid groups weigh life-threatening choices about who to help after USAID funding pause

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a warehouse in Haiti, nearly four metric tons of seeds cannot be distributed. Soon the planting season will be gone and with it, the best chance for those seeds to produce emergency food. Across the world in South Sudan, a program treating severely malnourished children under age 5 has halted. Both […]

FEB. 12, 2025

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

NEW YORK (AP) — Used to leading off, Ichiro Suzuki got antsy when he had to wait. Considered a no-doubt pick for baseball’s Hall of Fame and possibly the second unanimous selection, he waited by the phone for the expected call Tuesday. Fifteen minutes passed without a ring. “I actually started getting kind of nervous,” […]

JAN. 21, 2025

AP wins RTS Television Journalism Award for news technology

The Associated Press has won the Royal Television Society’s Television Journalism Award for News Technology for its groundbreaking transmission of broadcast-quality live video from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

FEB. 26, 2020

AP’s 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning photos

AP today earned its 54th Pulitzer Prize – 32nd for photography – in the feature photography category for compelling images of daily life under military lockdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

2019 APME awards honor AP journalists for powerful stories

Honduran migrant Joel Mendez, 22, feeds his eight-month-old son Daniel as his partner Yesenia Martinez, 24, crawls through a hole under the U.S. border wall in Tijuana, Mexico, Dec. 7, 2018. This image won the News Photography Single Shot category in the 2019 APME Awards. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Dake Kang and Yanan Wang, both 25, were […]

JUNE 17, 2019

Health and science chapter debuts in 2019 AP Stylebook

The Associated Press today released the 2019 edition of The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, which includes more than 200 new or revised entries and a new chapter on health and science journalism.

MAY 29, 2019

Additions to AP’s Ukraine team

In a memo to staff on Monday, News Director for Europe and Africa James Jordan and Deputy Director for International Photography Tony Hicks made two announcements: Hanna Arhirova is AP’s new Ukraine correspondent, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko and photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, previously AP freelancers, have joined the staff:

AP duo to focus on #metoo, gender politics

News leaders announced today that two AP journalists will focus on covering #metoo and gender politics through 2019.

AP Hong Kong photos garner global front pages

Newspapers across the globe, from Barcelona to Taiwan to Toledo, Ohio, featured on the front pages of their Monday editions gripping AP images of Hong Kong police clashing with protesters at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Anna Johnson named deputy of AP’s West Region

Anna Johnson (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File) The appointment was announced Wednesday by West Editor Traci Carl. Johnson was a reporter and editor based in Cairo from 2006 to 2009. There, she traveled throughout the region to cover Iran’s 2009 presidential elections, the Iraq war, Egyptian archaeology and Dubai’s economic boom, among other stories. “Anna […]

MARCH 5, 2014