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Sharon Cohen, much-honored AP national writer, dead at 68

AP national writer Sharon Cohen poses for photo in Chicago on July 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) Sharon Cohen, a matchless reporter who told American stories with great skill and compassion over more than four decades at The Associated Press, died Monday at her Chicago home. She was 68. At her death, more than a […]

APRIL 5, 2021

Oklahoma man charged in assault on AP photographer on Jan. 6

The affidavit in support of a criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Benjamen Scott Burlew is photographed, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick) PHOENIX (AP) — An Oklahoma man seen on video pushing an Associated Press photographer over a wall outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been arrested, authorities said Tuesday. Benjamen […]

AUG. 24, 2021

Dispute over access prompts AP to drop CMA Awards coverage

The Associated Press logo at AP’s headquarters in New York, April 26, 2016 (AP Photo/Hiro Komae) NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press has pulled out of its planned coverage of Wednesday’s Country Music Association Awards show due to restrictions that have been placed on still photographers and screen captures of the broadcast. The wire service has […]

NOV. 11, 2020

AP hires 2 reporters to cover race, join national team

This combination of 2020 and 2017 photos shows AP race and ethnicity writers Katrease Stafford, left, and Aaron Morrison. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, Courtesy of Quincy G. Ledbetter via AP) Katrease Stafford and Aaron Morrison will join the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team and write about how race intersects with topics such as politics, criminal justice, […]

FEB. 13, 2020

AP photographer wounded in Haiti shooting

Ruling party Senator Ralph Fethiere fires his gun outside Parliament as he arrives for a ceremony to ratify Fritz William Michel’s nomination as prime minister in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sept. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An Associated Press photographer was wounded Monday in a shooting that erupted outside Haiti’s Senate when […]

SEPT. 23, 2019

AP names Johnson all-formats news director in Europe, Africa

News Director for Europe and Africa Anna Johnson. (AP Photo/Matt York) Johnson is currently the cooperative’s news director for the western United States. Her appointment was announced by Sally Buzbee, AP’s senior vice president and executive editor, and Ian Phillips, the news agency’s vice president and deputy managing editor for international news. Johnson will start […]

NOV. 29, 2018

AP wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for Ukraine war coverage

NEW YORK – The Associated Press today won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its gripping reporting out of Mariupol, Ukraine, during the Russian siege of the port city, and the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for its heart-wrenching visual coverage of the horrors of the Russia-Ukraine war.

MAY 8, 2023

A record election night for AP

Independent, nonpartisan, fact-based journalism from The Associated Press reached record audiences on and after Nov. 5.  

AP’s top editor calls for probe into Israeli airstrike

The building housing the offices of The Associated Press and other media in Gaza City collapses after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press’ top editor on Sunday called for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza […]

MAY 16, 2021

Media outlets sue to get lawmaker’s sex harassment records

Former Brown County Supervisor Staush Gruszynski speaks at a Brown County Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall in Green Bay, Wis., May 17, 2017. (Adam Wesley/The Green Bay Press-Gazette via AP, File) Assembly Democrats said in December that a legislative staffer had filed a sexual harassment complaint against Rep. Staush Gruszynski. The complaint spurred an investigation […]

MARCH 18, 2020

Veteran journalist named AP global investigations editor

The Associated Press has named Michael Hudson, a veteran journalist who has exposed offshore financial secrecy and the origins of the financial crisis, as its global investigations editor, a new role overseeing AP’s team of investigative journalists around the world.

OCT. 4, 2017

AP promotes Ron Nixon to be its global investigations editor

AP Global Investigations Editor Ron Nixon. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)  The announcement was made Thursday by Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Sally Buzbee. “Ron’s integrity, his passion for smart reporting and his commitment to helping everyone he meets make him the ideal leader for AP’s scrappy, ambitious investigative team,” Buzbee said. “We care deeply […]

MARCH 12, 2020