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APs fish-slaves reporting earns gold Barlett and Steele award

Four Associated Press journalists will receive the gold award in the ninth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism for their work exposing slavery in the fishing industry in Southeast Asia and connecting the practice to U.S. supermarkets and pet food companies.

SEPT. 28, 2015

Tet Offensive account published by AP for 50th anniversary

The Associated Press has published “We’re Taking Fire: A Reporter’s View of the Vietnam War, Tet and the Fall of LBJ,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett, ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive.

JAN. 29, 2018

EEUU acusa a Raúl Castro y otras fotos de la semana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Fiscales estadounidenses anunciaron cargos penales contra el expresidente de Cuba Raúl Castro por el derribo de aviones civiles en 1996 gestionados por exiliados en Miami, mientras el gobierno de Donald Trump eleva la presión sobre la isla socialista.

MAY 22, 2026

Why AP has yet to call Kentucky governor’s race

At 10:02 p.m. ET on Tuesday, AP sent a news alert to its member news organizations and customers that the race for governor in Kentucky was too close to call. AP Election Decision Editor Stephen Ohlemacher explains why:

Black journalist group honors AP’s Errin Haines Whack

AP reporter Errin Haines Whack. (AP Photo) NBC 10 reporter Aundrea Cline-Thomas received the award for broadcast. Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Sofiya Ballin won the honor for online journalists. The award is given for work considered extraordinary in depth, scope or significance to African-Americans or other black people of African descent. The 39-year-old Whack joined the AP’s Philadelphia […]

JUNE 14, 2017

College athletes are getting paid and fans are starting to see a growing share of the bill

At Tennessee, they are adding a ‘talent fee’ to the price of sports tickets. At Arkansas, they will charge 3% more at the concessions stands. At Michigan and Michigan State, athletic directors sent letters alerting boosters that winning is going to start costing more. And, in a first, Clemson is going to start adding an […]

NOV. 4, 2024

Participate or keep it quiet? Recent sing-alongs tap into larger discussion on moviegoing etiquette

WASHINGTON (AP) — As movie theaters worked to entice Americans back into seats after COVID-19 lockdowns and labor strikes, the industry marketed blockbuster films like ” Wicked ” and the dueling releases of “ Barbie ” and “ Oppenheimer ” as no less than cultural events. But when certain movies become “events” unto themselves, sometimes […]

JAN. 9, 2025

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AP, dpa to launch new Arabic news service 

The Associated Press and German press agency dpa today announced they will launch an Arabic news wire comprising text stories from both news agencies.   The news wire, called the Global Arabic News Service, will provide more than 200 Arabic language news stories from AP and dpa each day, from the Middle East, Europe, the U.S. […]

OCT. 10, 2024

Nevada high court ends media ban on Vegas shooting autopsies

This October 2017 photo released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows the interior of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock’s 32nd floor room of the Mandalay Bay hotel. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP) LAS VEGAS (AP) — News organizations are free to report about the “anonymized, redacted” autopsy findings of the 58 […]

FEB. 28, 2018

‘Sheer bravery’ in Nairobi attack coverage

When extremists attacked a hotel complex in Kenya’s capital on Tuesday, AP journalists across formats scrambled to capture video, take photos and report the breaking news.