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Dear Readers: Yes, pen pal programs still exist in a digital world

In 1985, a 13-year-old girl in New Zealand spotted a pair of purple, lip-shaped sunglasses in “Young Miss” magazine. In March, I traveled 9,000 miles from New Hampshire to deliver them to her, finally fulfilling my pen pal’s decades-old request. International Youth Service, the agency that matched us up 40 years ago, has long since […]

MAY 5, 2026

Calling the 2020 presidential race state by state

At 11:26 a.m. ET on Saturday, The Associated Press declared Joe Biden the winner of the U.S. presidential race.

AP announces 1 new director, 4 incumbents at annual meeting

NEW YORK – One new director and four incumbents were named to The Associated Press board of directors, it was announced today at the news cooperative’s annual meeting at its New York headquarters.

APRIL 26, 2023

Spain train crash: How a journalist’s quick thinking led to vital info

It was Spain’s worst rail disaster in 70 years. An express train careened off the tracks in a jumble of flying steel, killing 79 people. In chaos that followed one key question emerged almost instantly: Was the train driver speeding? Initial but unsourced reports indicated he was. Video of the crash from a security camera seemed to show this. But as in the immediate aftermath of most disasters, precise, reliable information was very hard to come by.

AP responds to hacking of Twitter account

UPDATED on April 24 at 11:42 a.m. ET: The following statement is from Erin Madigan White, manager of AP media relations:

Acclaimed photographer Anja Niedringhaus dies

In this image taken Friday Sept. 11, 2011 AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus attends an exhibition of her work in Berlin. Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus an internationally acclaimed […]

APRIL 4, 2014

US News leadership team is named

This week AP announced eight key leadership positions, including the US News leadership team and a new director of global text.

AP photographers accept Pulitzer Prize for Syria coverage

Five Associated Press journalists accepted the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography at an awards ceremony at New York’s Columbia University on May 30. It is the 51st Pulitzer for AP and the 31st for photography.

Migrants, refugees or both?

Many questions have come up over the best way to describe the thousands of people who have begun entering Europe. Are they migrants? Refugees? Is there some better term that accurately describes them all?

Havana producer to lead AP video news in Latin America

Fernando Gonzalez, who has been The Associated Press’ senior producer in Havana for the past 11 years, will begin a new role as regional video editor for Latin America.

MARCH 5, 2014

Focused amid the gunfire, an AP photographer captures another perspective of attack on Trump

By  GENE J. PUSKAR, The Associated Press BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Gene Puskar has been with The Associated Press for 45 years. Based in Pittsburgh, his career has spanned a wide range of events including the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, the Sept. 11 attack that downed Flight 93, Stanley Cups and World Series, […]

JULY 28, 2024

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.