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Trauma lingers on for survivors of the deadly tsunami that hit Thailand 20 years ago

BAN NAM KHEM, Thailand (AP) — The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family’s house on the Andaman Sea coast of southern Thailand when her mom, sensing something wasn’t right, woke her up saying they needed to leave right away. The day is forever seared in Neungduangjai Sritrakarn’s memory: Dec. […]

DEC. 23, 2024

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

Climate related impacts

AP elimina fotos alteradas de Fidel Castro

Las imágenes fueron difundidas por Estudios Revolución, una entidad gubernamental que distribuye imágenes de funcionarios y actividades de gobierno, durante la reciente cumbre de Latinoamérica y el Caribe en La Habana. Fueron retransmitidas por la AP y por otras agencias noticiosas internacionales a sus clientes alrededor del mundo. “Hemos concluido que varias fotografías oficiales de […]

FEB. 10, 2014

AP and TVN Agency announce continued cooperation on newsgathering

The Associated Press and TVN Agency (TVN) today announced a two year extension to the newsgathering cooperation that began in 2009.  The Warsaw-based agency will supply video news stories from Poland for further distribution to AP clients worldwide.

FEB. 27, 2013

AP plans extensive coverage as pope begins retirement

Pope Benedict XVI officially enters retirement on Thursday, Feb. 28, the first pontiff to step down in 600 years, and Associated Press journalists from around the globe will be covering his final day in text, photos, video and on social media.

FEB. 27, 2013

Honoring courage in the name of slain AP photographer

The 2020 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer who was killed in 2014 reporting in Afghanistan, has been awarded to Masrat Zahra, a Kashmir-based freelance photojournalist.

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.

How AP calls a race at poll close

On Super Tuesday, AP declared Bernie Sanders the winner in California as soon as polls closed at 8 p.m. PT— one of four such race calls made that night as polls closed in a state.

‘Unprecedented’ transparency into race calls

At 6:32 p.m. ET on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day, The Associated Press called the U.S. House for the Republican Party after Republicans secured the 218th seat needed to gain control.

AP-NORC Center releases new survey on low-wage workers

Chicago, March 20, 2013 — The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research announces the publication and availability of a major two-part study designed to better understand how lower-wage workers and those who employ them view such jobs and the opportunities for advancing the careers of lower wage workers. Funding for the surveys was provided […]

MARCH 20, 2013

For AP, it’s back to the future

The Associated Press has announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Brookfield Place retail and office complex, across West Street from the World Trade Center. The move, planned for early 2017, will take AP back to the future.