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Obama Ron Edmonds Visit
President Barack Obama poses with retiring AP photographer Ron Edmonds, his wife, Grace, and daughter, Ashley, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 30, 2009. (Photo courtesy the White House, Lawrence Jackson)

Former AP White House photographer honored for ‘Lifetime Achievement’

Former Associated Press Senior White House photographer Ron Edmonds is being honored by the White House News Photographers Association with its Lifetime Achievement Award. It will be presented at the 2013 “Eyes of History” annual awards gala on Saturday, May 11, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington.

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5/19/13--Washington, DC--Sen John Cornyn (R-TX); Rep. Jason Chaffitz (R-UT); Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department. CBS News Photo by Chris Usher

AP CEO: Secret seizure of phone records ‘unconstitutional’

Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt called the U.S. Justice Department’s sweeping and secret seizure of journalists’ telephone records “unconstitutional” during an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.

Pulitzers
The Associated Press 2013 Pulitzer Prize-winning team, whose coverage of the Syrian civil won the prize for Breaking News Photography, poses together after the awards ceremony in Columbia University's Low Library, in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2013. From left are: Pakistan chief photographer Muhammed Muheisen, Manu Brabo of Spain, Narciso Contreras of Mexico, Rodrigo Abd of Guatemala and Gaza-based Khalil Hamra. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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.

Gary Pruitt
Gary Pruitt, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Associated Press, speaks at the National Press Club (NPC) in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Pruitt, addressing a luncheon at the NPC, spoke about how the Justice Department violated its own rules in subpoenaing AP phone records. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

AP CEO lays out 5 measures to ensure press freedom

In the wake of a secret seizure of AP journalists’ phone records by the U.S. Department of Justice last month, Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt said the overbroad action is already having a chilling effect on journalism.

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Paul Cheung named director of interactive and digital news production

The following promotion was announced today by AP Vice President and Managing Editor Lou Ferrara in an internal memo:

Pakistan Daily Life
A Pakistani girl comforts her brother near her family's makeshift tent in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Slums, which are built on illegal lands, have neither running water or sewage disposal. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

A simple kindness

How much should a reporter or photographer get personally involved with the people they’re covering? AP staff seek never to become part of a news story, but there’s nothing wrong with a simple human kindness.

Japan AP Photo Exhibition
A man walks in front of the AP Photo exhibition at Tokyo Station gallery in Tokyo, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Pausing to see the world

In fast-paced Tokyo, a pause will be rewarded with “A View of Daily Life” around the world.

Mideast Syria
A Syrian opposition fighter takes cover during exchange of fire with government forces in Telata village, a frontline located at the top of a mountain in the Idlib province countryside of Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

AP reacts to alteration of photo

The Associated Press has ended its ties with Narciso Contreras, a freelance photographer who has worked for AP in the Middle East, following his recent admission that he altered a photo that he took last September in Syria.

Gary Pruitt, Vince Duffy
Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, receiving the First Amendment Award for The Associated Press from RTDNF Chair Vince Duffy, during the Radio Television Digital News Association, 2014 First Amendment Awards Dinner, in Washington on Wednesday, March. 12, 2014. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

AP honored with First Amendment Award

The Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF) honored The Associated Press for defending a robust free press with its challenge to the U.S. Department of Justice for secretly seizing AP phone records.

Gary Pruitt
Associated Press President and CEO Gary Pruitt at headquarters in New York, Friday, Oct 12, 2012. (Photo by Santos Chaparro)

Pruitt: ‘Journalists today are targeted’

Three days after the killing of an Associated Press photojournalist and the wounding of an AP correspondent in Afghanistan, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt today decried attacks against journalists in remarks delivered at a press conference in New York:

Nigeria Kidnapped Girls
In this photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday May 12, 2014 shows the alleged missing girls abducted from the northeastern town of Chibok. The new video purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300 were kidnapped from a northeastern school the night of April 14 exactly four weeks ago. (AP Photo)

Covering hostage situations

Video surfaced this week from the Boko Haram group showing the schoolgirls they captured in Nigeria. The video included close-ups of the girls reciting from the Quran and answering questions from their captors, and wider shots of the group (some with an armed man in front of the girls).

APTOPIX Central African Republic The Girl in the Forest
In this April 16, 2014 photo, 10-year-old Hamamatou Harouna smiles as she sits in a tent with other Muslim refugees on the grounds of the Catholic Church in Carnot, Central African Republic. Hammamatou, who had lost the use of her legs to polio, fled Anti-Balaka violence in her village, carried on the back of her 12-year-old brother Souleymane. She spent 10 days alone in the forest. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Piecing together the story of a girl, 10, left in an African forest

Her name is Hamamatou Harouna. She is 10 years old and unable to walk because she has polio.

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