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DSA Media Group to promote AP sports brands

NEW YORK — DSA Media Group will work to promote college football and basketball sports brands for the Associated Press under a deal announced today.

JAN. 9, 2013

NTB selects AP as exclusive multiformat international news provider

The Associated Press has become the main international news provider for Norwegian news agency NTB.

DEC. 19, 2016

Racial gap widened in deaths among US moms around the time of childbirth

NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal health data released Wednesday. In 2021 and 2022, the maternal death rate for […]

FEB. 5, 2025

AP exec editor briefs UN Security Council on protection of journalists

Associated Press Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll addresses a United Nations Security Council meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict and the protection of journalists, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) Prepared remarks Kathleen Carroll Senior Vice President and Executive Editor The Associated Press Remarks on the safety of journalists […]

JULY 17, 2013

AP names 17 new statehouse reporters in Report for America collaboration

AP today announced the 17 journalists hired to cover statehouses across the U.S. as part of its collaboration with Report for America.

AP to cover US water issues with Walton Family Foundation grant

The Associated Press and the Walton Family Foundation today announced the creation of a new reporting team that will cover water issues in the U.S.

APRIL 13, 2021

The NBA draft lottery: 14 ping-pong balls, and the right to pick No. 1 overall on the line

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside a machine. The balls will be numbered, 1 through 14. One will be drawn, then a second, then a third, then a […]

MAY 12, 2025

A look at the venues for the 2026 Winter Games in Milan Cortina

MILAN (AP) — Next year’s Winter Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but they will actually be staged across a large swath of northern Italy.

FEB. 5, 2025

AP earns World Press Photo honors

Photos of a deadly Ethiopian Airlines plane crash, California wildfires, Brazilian sports fans and Hurricane Dorian’s destruction earned The Associated Press top honors in the 2020 World Press Photo Contest.

AP publishes history of baseball’s ‘Banned’ players, coaches

The Associated Press and Diversion Books have published “Banned: Baseball’s Blacklist of All-Stars and Also-Rans,” a comprehensive history written by former AP sports writer Hal Bock.

FEB. 21, 2017

Matt Volz appointed AP’s news editor for the Rockies region

Rocky Mountains news editor Matt Volz. (AP Photo/Amy Beth Hanson) From his base in Helena, Montana, Volz will work with all-formats teams of journalists in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Utah, a rich and varied territory that includes everything from fast-growing Denver to some of the most remote places in the country. The announcement was made […]

NOV. 4, 2019

Daisy Veerasingham named president and CEO of The Associated Press

NEW YORK – The Associated Press today named Daisy Veerasingham as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2022.

AUG. 3, 2021