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AP statement on Clinton Foundation donors

Vice President and Director of Media Relations Paul Colford issued this statement Wednesday, adding background information about AP's report on contact between Hillary Clinton and donors to the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as secretary of state.

AP at the Arab Media Summit

Several AP people took part in last week’s Arab Media Summit in Dubai, a large annual gathering of journalists and news executives from across the Arab world. This year there was substantial interest in user-generated content — how we verify the accuracy of photos and video we find on social networks.

AP’s decade-long push for court transparency key to current Cosby trial

On Sept. 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was led away from a Pennsylvania courthouse in handcuffs, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate. 

5 journalists win Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America

AP’s Mark Stevenson, recipient of the 2015 Maria Moors Cabot Prize. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday announced this year’s winners of the award, the oldest prize in international journalism. The winners are Mark Stevenson of the AP; Simon Romero of The Times; Lucas Mendes of GloboNews, a 24-hour news channel; and Raul […]

AUG. 12, 2015

AP names Adam Schreck as news director for the Gulf region

In this Sunday, March 22, 2015 photo, Associated Press Dubai Bureau chief Adam Schreck poses for a photograph, at the Marina district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Schreck, who has covered terrorism, armed conflict and upheaval in the Middle East, as well as sweeping economic changes reshaping the region, has been named as Gulf news […]

APRIL 1, 2015

Longtime South Carolina journalist John Shurr dies

John Shurr, long time South Carolina Associated Press bureau chief, is seen in a 2004 photo. Shurr, a longtime journalist and open government advocate who was The Associated Press’ bureau chief in South Carolina for 20 years, died Sunday morning, March 1, 2015, said Bill Rogers, executive director of the South Carolina Press Association, and […]

MARCH 2, 2015

Social Media Week event expands AP initiative to connect academics and media professionals

Who sets the news agenda in the social media age? How can news organizations maintain a sense of substance and gain useful insights from the community without falling victim to hype or hyperbole? These will be among the questions considered in a discussion led by The Associated Press at Social Media Week in New York on Feb. 25.

FEB. 19, 2015

AP names 3 new deputy chiefs of bureau in Washington

AP Deputy Washington Bureau Chief J. David Ake. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) AP Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Kathleen Hennessey. (AP Photo/J. David Ake) AP Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Elizabeth Kennedy. (Roberto Schmidt via AP) The appointments were announced by Julie Pace, AP’s chief of bureau in Washington. In his new role, Ake will serve as deputy chief […]

AUG. 3, 2017

Court filing links spy exposed by AP to Israel’s Black Cube

In this image from video, a man identified as former Israeli intelligence officer Aharon Almog-Assouline speaks during an interview at a restaurant in New York on Jan. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick) LONDON (AP) — A Canadian attorney says he appears to have been targeted by the same undercover operative unmasked by The Associated Press at […]

FEB. 27, 2019

AP’s top editor: ‘Is the story worth the risk?’

In a time of increasing threats to journalists worldwide, Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll said that news organizations need to carefully weigh the risks of reporting against journalists’ passion for telling untold stories.

AP CEO welcomes DOJ’s revised media guidelines

The Associated Press today welcomed revised guidelines on how the federal government could obtain records from the news media during leak investigations.