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AP to publish first all-time college basketball ranking

The Associated Press will rank the nation’s all-time top men’s college basketball programs for the first time, as tabulated from its more than 1,100 weekly polls of top basketball teams over the past 68 years.

MARCH 14, 2017

AP to release first all-time college basketball ranking

AP will release the all-time rankings, along with analysis, stories looking back at the history of the poll, and other details, on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Teams on the list will include the first-ever No. 1 in an AP poll, St. Louis, as well as teams that haven’t been in the poll for generations, including Seattle […]

DEC. 7, 2023

AP Fund for Journalism secures over $30 million to bring AP content to local US newsrooms

AP Fund for Journalism today announced significant commitments from several organizations, including the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc. and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, that will help power its first-of-its kind local news program to support the U.S. local news ecosystem. The combined investment of more than […]

NOV. 20, 2025

Dear Readers: Yes, pen pal programs still exist in a digital world

In 1985, a 13-year-old girl in New Zealand spotted a pair of purple, lip-shaped sunglasses in “Young Miss” magazine. In March, I traveled 9,000 miles from New Hampshire to deliver them to her, finally fulfilling my pen pal’s decades-old request. International Youth Service, the agency that matched us up 40 years ago, has long since […]

MAY 5, 2026

AP nombra a Daisy Veerasingham presidenta de la cooperativa

Daisy Veerasingham. (AP Foto) NUEVA YORK (AP) — The Associated Press designó el martes a Daisy Veerasingham, actual vicepresidenta ejecutiva y gerente de ingresos, como nueva presidenta y CEO de la cooperativa noticiosa. Sucederá a Gary Pruitt, quien se retira al inicio del año próximo. Será la primera mujer, la primera persona de color y […]

AUG. 3, 2021

A project celebrating 100 years and a Top 25 blog spark huge audience engagement

To launch its college football coverage with deeper reader engagement, a multi-department AP team centered its strategy on the wildly popular Top 25 poll and the 100th anniversary of the AP All-America team. Instead of standard coverage, the team undertook a massive archival data project, digging through a century of scarce records. They successfully compiled […]

AUG. 22, 2025

Lights, camera, action: Photographing the Oscars

The Associated Press was selected to take all photographs of the 93rd Academy Awards on Sunday, trusted to capture the event on behalf of members of the photography pool.

Financial markets story to feature format suited to Web and mobile

The following advisory was sent today to editors at AP member news organizations:

Cuban exiles honored at Miami’s ‘Ellis Island of the South’ as Trump ramps up immigrant arrests

For decades, its powerful lighthouse illuminated Miami’s Biscayne Bay, and during the height of the Cold War, what was known as the Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing communist rule. The 14-story Spanish Revival skyscraper was where, from 1962 to 1974, the U.S. State Department welcomed […]

AUG. 13, 2025

More on AP’s style on Pvt. Chelsea Manning

Yesterday the AP announced that we will use Pvt. Chelsea Manning to refer to the soldier convicted in the WikiLeaks case, rather than Pvt. Bradley Manning. We also will use female pronouns for Manning.