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Mideast Lebanon Kurds
Kurdish citizens who live in Lebanon hold Arabic placards that read, "To be Yazidi means love, accord and peace" and "No to killing the Yazidi sect by Daesh" during a demonstration against the Islamic State group, in front of the UN building, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Sept. 15, 2014. An activist group and a Kurdish official say heavy clashes are taking place in northeastern Syria, with Kurdish fighters capturing about a dozen villages from Islamic militants. Kurdish fighters and members of the Islamic State group have been fighting each other for more than a year in northern Syria. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Now we say ‘the Islamic State group’ instead of ISIL

Back in June we talked in this blog about AP’s preferred abbreviation for the fast-growing Islamic militant group in Iraq and Syria, known variously at the time as ISIL and ISIS. We explained why our preference was ISIL.

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Doubling down on state government coverage

Building on The Associated Press’ unmatched presence in all 50 U.S. statehouses, we are adding to our competitive advantage by creating a team of state government specialists.

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Moises Lopez, Igor Libman, Karthik Josium, and John Barrow is 2014 Gramling winner Mon. Sep 15, 2014 at AP headquarters in New York. (Photo by Santos Chaparro)

Q&A: How AP stays ahead in the mobile space

The Associated Press has released a new version of AP Mobile, its award-winning news app, to offer full support for Apple’s new operating system, iOS 8, and the hotly anticipated iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Here, Michael Boord, director of mobile products, explains how AP is staying ahead in the mobile space:

2014 REPORTERS’ COMMITTEE for FREEDOM of the PRESS FIRST AMENDMENT AWARDS Dinner
Kathleen Carroll== 2014 REPORTERS' COMMITTEE for FREEDOM of the PRESS FIRST AMENDMENT AWARDS Dinner== The Pierre, NYC== May 19, 2014== ©Patrick McMullan== Photo-JONATHON ZIEGLER/PatrickMcMullan.com== ==

AP top editor urges journalists to renew fight for access

Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, called on fellow journalists to remain vigilant in pressing government and institutions for access to public information during an address to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on Monday in New York.

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AP’s long history of reporting from Cuba

As the United States and Cuba move to restore diplomatic relations for the first time in more than 50 years, a look at The Associated Press’ long and unparalleled history on the island reflects the tensions that have marked the relationship between the two countries.

Coal Mine Safety
at the Gibon North mine, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2015, in Princeton, In. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Behind the scenes: Down below

One of the perks of being a reporter is that your beat can take you to some places that most people will never have the chance to experience. For AP reporter Dylan Lovan, one such place was deep inside a coal mine.

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FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2015 file photo, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber escorts his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, onto the House floor before he is sworn in for an unprecedented fourth term as Governor in Salem, Ore. Kitzhaber announced his resignation Friday, Feb. 13, 2015, amid allegations Hayes used her relationship with him to enrich herself. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, file)

Persistence and source work pay on big political story

In a note to staff, Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano explains how a reporter who cultivated sources on the statehouse beat kept AP ahead on a story that resonated beyond state borders:

Vietnam The Real War
Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a Viet Cong camp eighteen miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, March 1965. (AP Photo/Horst Faas) For one-time editorial use only in connection with the AP exhibit "Vietnam: The Real War."
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AP photo exhibit to open in Vietnam

To cover the war in Vietnam, The Associated Press gathered a group of extraordinary photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the greatest photographic legacies of the 20th century. Forty years later, a collection of more than 50 gripping AP images will be on display in Vietnam to tell the human story behind the conflict.

MAY 28, 2015

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AP coverage of health care rollout to focus on states

President Barack Obama’s national health care reform is the biggest addition to the nation’s social safety net since the advent of Medicare nearly 50 years ago. The Affordable Care Act is estimated to cover at least 30 million of the nearly 50 million people now uninsured at a cost of $1.7 trillion from 2013 to 2022 -- perhaps more in later decades as greater numbers of people sign up and medical costs keep rising.

JAN. 24, 2013

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Hong Kong exhibit to remember AP photojournalist Horst Faas

Photographs taken by the legendary Horst Faas, who won two Pulitzer Prizes during his nearly 50 years with The Associated Press, will be on view during September at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Hong Kong.

AUG. 27, 2012

Left Patrick Talamantes, right, Kirk Davis
Left Patrick Talamantes, right, Kirk Davis
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AP announces two new directors, 10 incumbents at annual meeting

Patrick J. Talamantes, left, and Kirk Davis. NEW YORK — Two new members were named and 10 incumbents were re-elected to The Associated Press board of directors, as announced at AP’s annual meeting today at its New York headquarters. Joining the board is Kirk Davis, CEO of GateHouse Media LLC and chief operating officer of […]

APRIL 22, 2015

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News media coalition announces partnership to test small news drones at FAA test site

A coalition of 10 news media companies [including The Associated Press] is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) for the testing of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to gather news.

JAN. 15, 2015

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