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AP Fund for Journalism announces board of directors, 1st program with nearly 50 local newsrooms  

The AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced its board of directors and a local newsroom pilot program in which it will work with nearly 50 nonprofit news organizations to support state and local news reporting. The program marks the first such project for APFJ, the charitable organization created by The Associated Press in 2024 […]

APRIL 8, 2025

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Virginia AP reporter Steve Szkotak dies at age 65

Mandy Szkotak said her husband died of cancer at home with family members at his side. Szkotak worked as an editor and reporter at the AP bureau in Richmond for 14 years, eloquently putting a human face on stories about watermen, Civil War buffs, criminals and crime victims, public figures and all manner of regular […]

JUNE 1, 2016

Longtime AP track writer Bert Rosenthal dies at 79

FILE – This Jan. 10, 1980, file photo, shows Associated Press sports writer Bert Rosenthal in New York. Rosenthal, who became one of the top track and field writers in the United States in more than four decades with The Associated Press, died Sunday night, Nov. 15, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he had lived […]

NOV. 17, 2015

AP releases restored footage of Charles and Diana’s wedding

In this July 29, 1981 file photo, Britain’s Prince Charles kisses his bride, the former Diana Spencer, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in London after their wedding, July 29, 1981. (AP Photo) Now, 36 years later, The Associated Press has restored original footage from the July 29, 1981, wedding and is releasing it in 4K resolution […]

AUG. 25, 2017

Ex-AP writer McArthur, who covered Vietnam, dies

This April 28, 1972 file photo shows once-and-future bureau chiefs at The Associated Press’ Saigon bureau, from left, George Esper (1973-75), Malcolm Browne (1961-64), George McArthur (1968-69), Edwin Q. White (1965-67), and Richard Pyle (1970-73). McArthur, a former AP foreign correspondent who reported all over the world and spent years in Saigon covering the Vietnam […]

APRIL 13, 2013

AP to name 90th All-America team, resume teams for all 5 major conferences

The Associated Press All-America team, the longest-running annual roster of the nation’s top college football players, will be announced Dec. 13. The AP also will name all-conference teams for all five major football conferences for the first time since 1977, starting Dec. 14.

DEC. 3, 2015

Puerto Rico AP visita de nuevo a víctimas de huracán María

SAN JUAN (AP) — El fotógrafo Ramón Espinosa recorrió durante semanas Puerto Rico después que el huracán María devastó la isla en septiembre. Durante ese tiempo documentó las vidas de los puertorriqueños que perdieron techos y posesiones a causa de la tormenta. Espinosa volvió a visitar a las personas de las imágenes antes del inicio […]

JUNE 1, 2018

Aging Nukes A four-part investigative series by Jeff Donn

When commercial nuclear power plants were being built in the United States, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, the industry and government experts said they were designed to last 40 years. Now those plants are older than their original life span, many are being relicensed for another 20 years, and there’s talk of operating them for as long as 100 years. All that even though the nation’s nuclear power reactors are already showing signs of their age, as AP national writer Jeff Donn revealed in an extraordinary four-part series.

APRIL 16, 2012

Photographer Heidi Levine receives award named for Anja Niedringhaus

Photographer Heidi Levine, winner of the first Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, speaks during the ceremony in Berlin, Thursday, June 25, 2015. The award was created to honor the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus (1965-2014). (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) AP’s special regional correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Kathy Gannon, speaks at the gathering […]

JUNE 25, 2015

AP names Sally Stapleton to manage new global religion team

The appointment was announced Friday by Sarah Nordgren, AP’s deputy managing editor for sports, business, entertainment, health, science and religion. As global religion editor, Stapleton will lead a team funded by a $4.9 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to the Religious News Foundation. The AP will work with Religion News Service and The Conversation to […]

JUNE 21, 2019

AP to name 92nd all-America team, teams for all 5 major conferences

The Associated Press All-America team, the longest-running annual honor roll of the nation's top college football players, will be announced Dec. 11. The AP also will name all-conference teams for all five major football conferences starting Dec. 4, and all-America teams for the lower divisions starting Dec. 12.

NOV. 27, 2017