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General ‘shocked’ by AP report on AWOL guns, considers fix

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley testifies before a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine proposed budget estimates and justification for fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Defense in Washington, June 17, 2021. (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP) Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, […]

JUNE 17, 2021

AP journalists win Pulitzer for coverage of Yemen civil war

From left: video journalist Maad al-Zikry, correspondent Maggie Michael, photographer Nariman El-Mofty. (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — A team of three Associated Press journalists won a Pulitzer Prize in international reporting Monday for their work documenting torture, graft and starvation in Yemen’s brutal civil war. Reporter Maggie Michael, photographer Nariman El-Mofty and video journalist […]

APRIL 15, 2019

Legal challenges to insurance coverage in California

Countering misinformation, AI in US elections

Speaking to technology industry executives at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday, Executive Editor Julie Pace outlined the biggest challenges news organizations expect to see this election cycle: misinformation and generative AI.

Video journalist hightails it to the heart of disaster in Texas

With quick thinking and immediate action, an AP video journalist beat even the first responders to the scene of a disaster in West, Texas. AP Managing Editor for State News Kristin Gazlay explains:

Poorly worded alert prompts clarification

This morning a poorly worded news alert moved on the AP wire and was also tweeted via @AP.

State should disclose inmate-death records Access counselor

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Gov. Bruce Rauner’s corrections agency has refused to release public records about a prison altercation that led to the homicide of a 65-year-old inmate and forced the paid suspension of at least four correctional officers. The state’s public access counselor in the Democratic attorney general’s office ruled last month that Illinois Department of […]

DEC. 9, 2018

Stories behind coverage of Boston Marathon blasts

In a memo to staff, Senior Managing Editor for U.S. News Mike Oreskes recounts how photographer Charles Krupa, who covered his first Boston Marathon in 1986, pushed toward danger to capture one of the signature images of the April 15 bomb blasts. Oreskes also singles out other AP staffers near and far who contributed significantly to AP’s news report:

AP designa a Julie Pace directora ejecutiva de la agencia

Julie Pace, jefa de la oficina de Washington de The Associated Press, en una foto tomada en la oficina de Washington de AP el 26 de agosto de 2021. (AP Foto/Jacquelyn Martin) NUEVA YORK (AP) — Julie Pace, una periodista de Washington que dirigió la cobertura del gobierno de Estados Unidos durante un periodo de […]

SEPT. 1, 2021

AP VoteCast to survey voters in all 50 states in US election

NEW YORK – The Associated Press will deploy AP VoteCast, the modern approach to election research, to survey voters in all 50 states in the U.S. general election on Nov. 3.

OCT. 6, 2020

AP, Frontline to Premiere 2 Documentary Specials on Ukraine War

The PBS investigative series Frontline and The Associated Press announced today the premiere of two documentary specials that investigate the toll of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

JULY 27, 2022

The NBA Finals are set: It’ll be Thunder vs. Pacers, starting Thursday night

The seeds for the 2025 NBA Finals began getting planted unknowingly in 2017, back when Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was about to enroll at Kentucky and Tyrese Haliburton was getting ready for his senior year of high school in Wisconsin.

JUNE 1, 2025