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Honoring Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll

AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll will receive the 2016 Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement from The Newswomen’s Club of New York, the organization announced today.

AP series will explore ‘Why it matters’

With the conventions behind us, and 97 days of campaigning still to come, AP’s political team is preparing a series that will explore key political issues facing voters.

The Associated Press Municipal Bond Index launches Monday

On Monday, AP will unveil a new, branded index to measure municipal bond performance.

How I got that Trump photo

On the final night of the Republican National Convention, AP photographer Mark Terrill captured a dramatic image of Donald Trump from above that had people talking.

Scrambling to obtain exclusive user-generated video of Nice attack

When news broke of a truck running down crowds of people in Nice, France, on July 14, after the Bastille Day fireworks had ended, video of the scene surfaced almost immediately.

APs Rodrigo Abd among this years 4 Cabot Prize winners

Photographer Rodrigo Abd. (AP Photo/Lorena Pahor) NEW YORK (AP) — Photographer Rodrigo Abd of The Associated Press and three other journalists in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador won this year’s Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday announced this […]

JULY 20, 2016

AP’s extensive conventions coverage to include Facebook Live and shareable content

Editors and producers at member news organizations have been learning of AP’s plans to provide comprehensive 24/7 coverage inside and beyond the convention halls where Republicans and Democrats will gather in the next two weeks.

New survey offers revealing look at views of young Americans

Days before the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the first-of-its-kind GenForward survey reveals how young people feel about top political issues and the two presumptive presidential nominees.

How to gather international news in a perilous world

When more than two dozen international editors convened in Boston on Friday for the International Press Institute/Associated Press Foreign Editors’ Circle, they discussed the challenges journalists face when working abroad.

AP receives 5 awards from Deadline Club

We were pleased to receive five awards on Tuesday evening from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Update on study of alternatives to exit polling

See update here.As early voting becomes more popular, AP has been testing new ways to more accurately survey the people who cast their ballots before Election Day, amid increasing costs and declining response rates of telephone polls.

Recognizing courage in the name of slain AP photojournalist

The 2016 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the AP photographer who was killed reporting in Afghanistan in 2014, has been awarded to Adriane Ohanesian, a freelance photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.