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AP and Municipal Bond Information Services announce new municipal bond index

NEW YORK — The Associated Press and Municipal Bond Information Services, LLC (MBIS), a national consortium of municipal inter-dealer brokers, announce the creation of the AP Municipal Bond Index, a breakthrough service built on market data aggregated from the MBIS member firms. The AP Municipal Bond Index will be the only benchmark based on observable, intraday pretrade and trade data and will be launched in the second half of 2016, with beta versions now available to limited market participants.  Andrew Kalotay & Associates has been engaged to build the index calculation engine.

APRIL 11, 2016

Learning from voter survey experiments

Leading up to the November election, AP worked with GfK Custom Research and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago to examine new ways to survey voters.

AP photographer Dar Yasin wins international photojournalism award

AP photographer Dar Yasin has won the inaugural Yannis Behrakis International Photojournalism Award from Athens Photo World for a compelling collection of photographs chronicling the ongoing conflict in Kashmir.

AP wins Pulitzer Prize for Seafood from Slaves investigation

NEW YORK – The Associated Press today won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its international investigation of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that freed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the U.S.

APRIL 18, 2016

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 to present VoteCast results at AAPOR polling conference

The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago will present the results of AP VoteCast, the new standard in election research, at the American Association for Public Opinion Research conference in Toronto on Saturday.

MAY 14, 2019

Decision 2016: Counting the vote

On Nov. 8, it’s The Associated Press that will be tabulating election results for national, state and local races and distributing them to members and customers worldwide.

Winter Games style guide distributed by AP

Visitors pose in front of the Olympic rings at the 2014 Winter Olympics Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. The Olympics begin Feb. 7th. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The AP Standards Center today issued the following advisory to editors at our member news organizations. To help with spellings and usage in coverage of the […]

JAN. 27, 2014

AP photos of presidential campaigns go on view in Virginia

An exhibition of AP photos showing presidential campaigns over the past 100 years, including Calvin Coolidge clad in cowboy attire and John F. Kennedy covered in confetti as his car crawls through Los Angeles, has opened in Virginia at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts.

National security, liberty and role of the free press in a digital age

Prepared remarks Gary Pruitt President and CEO The Associated Press National Security, Liberty and the Role of the Free Press in a Digital Age World Association of Newspapers Turin, Italy Like many of you, AP has a long legacy of fighting for press freedom and access to information that the public needs to know – […]

JUNE 9, 2014

Challenging insurance market in California

AP Global Media Services and NewSource Globo team up in Brazil

The Associated Press and Globo have announced a four-year agreement, through their AP Global Media Services (GMS) and NewSource Globo units, to provide international broadcasters with comprehensive media services and facilities at major events taking place in Brazil, including the FIFA World Cup, the 2016 Olympic Games and the Pope’s visit in 2017. The collaboration, […]

MAY 15, 2014