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AP tells the little-told story of a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor, teaching history’s lessons to schoolchildren

Paris-based correspondent John Leicester secured rare, intimate access to 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Ginette Kolinka, capturing a powerful story of memory, resilience and urgency. Kolinka, one of the last living witnesses to the horrors of Auschwitz, has dedicated her later years to educating younger generations about the realities of the Holocaust. Leicester followed her as she […]

APRIL 10, 2026

AP, Frontline doc ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins Sundance audience award

PARK CITY, UTAH — The visceral feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” by The Associated Press and Frontline (PBS) has been awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition Audience Award.

JAN. 27, 2023

Milei logra aprobación en Congreso argentino de polémica ley que flexibiliza protección de glaciares

El gobierno del presidente argentino Javier Milei logró que la Cámara de Diputados aprobase el jueves la ley que flexibiliza la protección de los glaciares con la que busca atraer millonarias inversiones mineras y que medioambientalistas se han propuesto resistir en la justicia al considerar que pone en riesgo reservas críticas de agua dulce.

APRIL 9, 2026

AP photographer Griffith awarded for Sydney hostage crisis

In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, Jieun Bae runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. Rob Griffith, the Sydney-based Associated Press photographer, won the 2015 News Photography award Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015 by […]

DEC. 3, 2015

AP wins IBC Innovation Award for underwater live video transmission

The Associated Press has won the IBC Innovation Award for Content Distribution for its groundbreaking transmission of broadcast-quality live video from the depths of the Indian Ocean.

SEPT. 16, 2019

Covering the monster typhoon

Associated Press journalists covering the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines are now living and working in two locations – the meeting room in a hotel that was largely destroyed and a spot at Tacloban’s seaside airport enclosed by a large party tent.

All-formats team brings readers to 48-hour race in inhospitably hot environment

The Badwater 135 Ultramarathon is one of the most grueling and dangerous races in the world, stretching 135 miles through California’s Death Valley — the hottest place on Earth — in the middle of July. This year, an Associated Press team set out to take audiences into this brutal environment and showcase what it says […]

JULY 25, 2025

Man accused of killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder of foreign officials

WASHINGTON (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington as they left an event at a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” federal authorities said Thursday in announcing criminal charges. Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted “Free Palestine” as […]

MAY 22, 2025

Acclaimed photographer Anja Niedringhaus dies

In this image taken Friday Sept. 11, 2011 AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus attends an exhibition of her work in Berlin. Niedringhaus, 48, was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday, April 4, 2014 when an Afghan policeman opened fire while they were sitting in their car in eastern Afghanistan. Niedringhaus an internationally acclaimed […]

APRIL 4, 2014

Jonathan Wolman, Detroit News editor, former AP exec, dies

Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of The Detroit News, speaks during an announcement at the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News during a news conference in Detroit, Dec. 16, 2008. (AP Photo) Jonathan Wolman, who over more than 45 years in journalism served as editor and publisher of The Detroit News and previously worked […]

APRIL 15, 2019

AP, Frontline documentary ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ wins Academy Award® for ‘Best Documentary Feature Film’

A powerful, first-person view of the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” is told through the perspective of Ukrainian filmmaker and AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov.

MARCH 10, 2024

Making a case for a singular ‘they’

During a panel at the American Copy Editors Society national conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday, it was announced that the 2017 AP Stylebook will include guidance on the limited use of “they” as a singular pronoun.