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Religion News Service, AP and The Conversation launch global religion journalism initiative

NEW YORK -- Religion News Foundation (RNF), Religion News Service (RNS), The Associated Press (AP) and The Conversation announced today the creation of a global religion journalism initiative, an effort to expand religion news reporting in the U.S. and around the world.

APRIL 24, 2019

AP, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Conversation renew collaboration to bolster coverage of nonprofit world 

The Associated Press, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and The Conversation announced today funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help the news organizations cover philanthropies and charities and their impact on society. 

DEC. 13, 2023

AP announces winners of 2025 Oliver S. Gramling Awards  

Associated Press journalists who work in the field and staffers who support its mission behind the scenes are winners of the 2025 Oliver S. Gramling Awards and Chair’s Prize, the highest internal honors of The Associated Press.   Created in 1994 to recognize AP staffers for professional excellence, the Gramling Awards are decided each year by a […]

OCT. 29, 2025

AP announces 1 new director, 4 incumbents at annual meeting

NEW YORK – One new director and four incumbents were named to The Associated Press board of directors, it was announced today at the news cooperative’s annual meeting at its New York headquarters.

APRIL 26, 2023

Funeral of AP video journalist Simone Camilli to be livestreamed

The funeral of Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli, in his Tuscan hometown of Pitigliano, may be viewed Friday via a livestream on AP.org starting 5:30 p.m. local time in Italy (11:30 a.m. ET /  1530 GMT).

AUG. 14, 2014

Obama ‘HOPE’ poster artist Shepard Fairey gets probation

NEW YORK (AP) — The artist who created the “HOPE” poster that came to symbolize Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign was sentenced Friday to two years of probation and 300 hours of community service by a judge who cited his charity work. Shepard Fairey hugged his lawyers, was kissed by wife and shook hands with […]

SEPT. 7, 2012

Persistence and source work pay on big political story

In a note to staff, Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano explains how a reporter who cultivated sources on the statehouse beat kept AP ahead on a story that resonated beyond state borders:

Three new members, five incumbents elected to AP board

Three new members and five incumbents were elected to the board of directors of The Associated Press in results announced today at the annual meeting of the news cooperative in Orlando, Fla.

APRIL 15, 2013

‘Footprints on the Moon,’ an AP e-book, recounts space race

“Footprints on the Moon,” an Associated Press account of how man succeeded in freeing himself from the bonds that held him to Earth, is now available as an e-book.

JULY 21, 2014

Frontline, AP investigate Trump administration’s mass detention of migrant children

A new joint investigation from The Associated Press and Frontline examines conditions inside the growing network of federally-funded shelter programs for migrant children in the U.S. and the lasting impact of detention on vulnerable kids.

NOV. 8, 2019

AP nombra director editorial para el Cono Sur

En esta foto del 2 de abril de 2013, el editor de Associated Press Editor Peter Prengaman posa para una foto en Atlanta. Prengaman, periodista multiformato y gerente de noticias que ha reportado desde una docena de países para AP, ha sido nombrado director editorial para el Cono Sur a cargo de la cobertura en […]

DEC. 1, 2014

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.