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6 multiformat journalists to staff new AP bureau in Myanmar

The Associated Press on Saturday formally opened a bureau in Yangon, Myanmar, the first international news agency permitted to operate full time in the country, which has relaxed its longtime restrictions on media amid a wave of democratic reforms.

MARCH 30, 2013

AP, Bloomberg Media Distribution sign strategic alliance for EMEA and Asia sales

The Associated Press and Bloomberg Media Distribution today announced a joint sales alliance aimed at securing new clients within the EMEA and Asia regions.

OCT. 9, 2018

AP Top 25 football poll to kick off 84th year with Regions Bank sponsorship

For the first time, The Associated Press’ stack of marquee college football honors — including the AP Top 25 poll, the longest-running college football poll of its kind — will be sponsored by Regions Bank.

AUG. 15, 2019

AP Top 25 college football poll kicks off 81st year

The AP Top 25, the longest-running college football poll of its kind, will begin its 81st year with the much-awaited preseason edition on Sunday, Aug. 21.

AUG. 18, 2016

Anna Johnson named Washington bureau chief

Executive Editor Julie Pace and Head of Global News Gathering Paul Haven announced today that Anna Johnson, AP news director for Europe and Africa, has been named Washington bureau chief.

AP, Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets enter into development deal

Morgan Spurlock (Photo courtesy CNN) Agreement grants Warrior Poets unlimited access to AP’s extensive media portfolio for the development of multiplatform projects NEW YORK -– The Associated Press and Morgan Spurlock’s production company, Warrior Poets, have entered into a development deal offering Warrior Poets unlimited access to the extensive resources of AP and its broadcast, […]

APRIL 29, 2014

AP photographer: ‘I composed myself enough to shoot pictures’

When a gunman attacked Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at a photo exhibit in Ankara Monday, AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici didn’t put down his camera. Instead, he captured images of the gunman that immediately went viral.

Covering the Olympics during a pandemic

AP Deputy Sports Editor Howie Rumberg, in Tokyo for the Summer Games, describes what it’s been like to cover the Olympics in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pandemic disruptions to health care worsened cancer survival, study suggests

During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right. The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the first to assess the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on the short-term survival of cancer […]

FEB. 5, 2026

Defending journalism, defending society

“Cold-blooded killing of journalists by powerful individuals and governments to achieve their political and economic aims, or by individuals driven by private grievances or propaganda-fueled hate, have threatened and in too many cases cut down journalists over the past year,” AP Vice President for Standards John Daniszewski said at the United Nations Office at Geneva on Tuesday. “For no crime other than their work to reveal facts, and for their stubborn unwillingness to surrender to intimidation.”

David Biller named by AP as its news director for Brazil

Brazil News Director David Biller. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) The announcement was made Wednesday by Matt Chandler, AP’s news director for Latin America and the Caribbean. “David will lead a talented and energetic text, photo and video team that has consistently provided fast, engaging and insightful coverage of stories that have resounded in Latin America and […]

OCT. 9, 2019