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AP makes one million minutes of historical footage available on YouTube

LONDON — The Associated Press and British Movietone, one of the world’s most comprehensive newsreel archives, are together bringing more than 1 million minutes of digitized film footage to YouTube. Showcasing the moments, people and events that shape the world, it will be the largest upload of historical news content on the video-sharing platform to […]

JULY 22, 2015

AP, AppliedXL to deliver AI-powered news tips to local newsrooms

The Associated Press and AppliedXL announced today a collaboration to provide AI-powered local news tips and advisories on health, energy and environment issues to AP member newsrooms in an effort to enhance local journalism. Leveraging AppliedXL’s autonomous news gathering technology and informed by input from AP journalists, the new initiative, AP Local Lede, identifies and […]

SEPT. 17, 2024

Cost-related access challenges, solutions in 18 states

CALIFORNIA The state Department of Motor Vehicles estimated a minimum charge of $19,950 in response to an Associated Press reporter’s request last fall to determine whether poor people had their driver’s licenses suspended at a disproportionate rate. The AP requested the number of suspended driver’s licenses by ZIP code, but the DMV said such a […]

MARCH 13, 2015

Longtime AP executive James W. Mangan dies at age 87

Andrew Mangan said his father died of a heart ailment Friday while playing tennis in San Antonio. “If you look at his career history, AP tossed a lot of different challenges to Jim. He did well in every one of them,” said Louis D. Boccardi, former AP president and CEO. James Mangan started with AP […]

AUG. 26, 2015

AP video to feature in Times Square New Year’s celebration

Amid the crowds and confetti, The Associated Press will once again take center stage at the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration in New York.

DEC. 26, 2014

Japanese women struggle to find a place in the Japanese sumo world

 Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world […]

SEPT. 11, 2025

AI Tech Boom

The Associated Press launches AP Content Services to help brands tell their stories

2015 — The Associated Press has established a new division to provide talent, technology and distribution to help brands promote their products and services through multiformat storytelling.

SEPT. 9, 2015

AP Content Services produces Hiroshima tourism campaign

The Associated Press announced today that its Content Services division worked with Japan’s Hiroshima Tourism Association to produce and distribute custom content highlighting the region to international tourists.

MAY 18, 2023

AP and Red Bull Media House collaborate to provide premium sports, music and lifestyle content

The Associated Press and Red Bull Media House announced today a collaboration that will allow AP clients to access a curated mix of sports, dance, music and lifestyle video and images from Red Bull Media House.

JULY 18, 2017

At Rio sports conference, AP focuses on ‘second screen’

The AP unveiled a sequel to its popular 2012 sport video today, outlining how the “second screen” experience — combining TV and mobile devices — has become a new reality in the world of sport.

MARCH 11, 2013

Guttenfelder is TIME’s Instagram Photographer of the Year

David Guttenfelder, AP’s chief photographer in Asia, can add TIME magazine’s Instagram Photographer of the Year to the myriad accolades he’s received throughout his career.