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Spotlight on ‘Reporters reporting’

A new Associated Press Instagram account features AP journalists in the field, shooting photos and video and reporting news stories across the globe.  

How an iconic AP photo showed toll of Vietnam War to America

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Dallas Brown can still see the bullets coming for him 50 years later, smacking into the dirt at his feet as north Vietnamese soldiers fired on his platoon during an ambush deep in the jungle. Minutes later, as the deadly firefight wound down, Brown and his fellow soldiers in the […]

FEB. 12, 2018

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 top editor urges journalists to renew fight for access

AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll addresses a gathering of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Monday, May 19, in New York. (Photo by ©PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM) Prepared remarks Kathleen Carroll AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Thank you, Saundra. Let me start by […]

MAY 19, 2014

Series exposing slavery at sea wins Polk Award for 4 AP reporters

Margie Mason, Esther Htusan, Martha Mendoza, Robin McDowell. An exhaustive investigation of the seafood industry in Southeast Asia that resulted in freedom for more than 2,000 enslaved fishermen and other laborers has earned a team of four Associated Press journalists a prestigious George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting. AP’s Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza […]

FEB. 14, 2016

Paramount will pay $16 million in settlement with Trump over ’60 Minutes’ interview

NEW YORK (AP) — In a case seen as a challenge to American free-speech principles, Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over the editing of CBS’ “ 60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October. Paramount, which owns CBS, said the money will go to Trump’s future presidential […]

JULY 2, 2025

AP reports loss on one-time accounting charges

In this April 18, 2017, photo Associated Press photographs are displayed at AP headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) Revenue fell 8 percent to $510.1 million from $556.3 million in 2016, when the company benefited from additional revenue related to U.S. elections, according to the AP’s earnings release. The revenue decline, reported Wednesday, also […]

APRIL 25, 2018

An ‘impactful, buzzy set of political polling’

A staff memo by Vice President-International News John Daniszewski describes how AP’s news survey specialist developed original, impactful polling on the presidential candidates whose findings earlier this month “reset the political news agenda”:

AP’s reporting from Honduras, Gaza and Syria wins prestigious awards

Associated Press journalists have won a number of prestigious awards for their work covering a variety of difficult stories spanning from Latin America to the Middle East.

AP names US news chief Carovillano its new managing editor

Managing Editor Brian Carovillano. (AP Photo) Deputy Managing Editor for Operations David Scott. (AP Photo) The appointment was announced by Sally Buzbee, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor. As Buzbee’s chief deputy, Carovillano takes on responsibility for AP’s news gathering efforts around the world and in all media formats. “Brian is a strong and […]

APRIL 4, 2017

AP to publish first all-time college football ranking

The Associated Press will rank the nation’s all-time top college football programs for the first time, as tabulated from its more than 1,100 weekly polls of top college football teams over the past 80 years.

JULY 26, 2016