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AP wins Pulitzer Prize for Yemen war reporting

NEW YORK — The Associated Press today won a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting based on its compelling coverage of the grinding conflict in Yemen and the ensuing humanitarian crisis, including a series of deep investigative stories, photos and videos chronicling atrocities spawned by the war.

APRIL 15, 2019

Prize-winning AP team served as world’s eyes in Mariupol

An apartment building explodes after Russian army tank fire in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) NEW YORK (AP) — Instincts about the strategic significance of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol led a team of Associated Press journalists there just as Russians were about to lay siege. It proved to be a […]

MAY 9, 2023

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

NRK puts AP ENPS at the heart of its newsroom

National broadcaster of Norway, NRK, has reselected AP ENPS as its newsroom computer system to further drive collaboration between radio, TV and online news production, allowing journalists access to scripts, wires, media and messaging whether they are working on their desktop, tablet or smartphone.

SEPT. 11, 2015

AP Muere director de noticias para Caribe Fernando González

Fernando González posa para una fotografía en La Habana, Cuba, el 5 de marzo de 2014. CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Fernando González, quien pasó décadas cubriendo y dirigiendo coberturas de historias importantes para The Associated Press en Latinoamérica, desde visitas papales hasta escaramuzas fronterizas, huracanes y tomas de rehenes, murió en La Habana. Tenía […]

NOV. 22, 2021

‘We don’t speculate’ How AP counts votes and calls races

A woman casts her ballot on the first day of early voting in a recently-shuttered store at Oak Park Mall in Overland Park, Kansas, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) AP will use that vote count to declare winners in some 7,000 races, so the world knows who wins not only the White House, but […]

OCT. 24, 2020

AP reporter recounts covering fall of Berlin Wall in 1989

In this Oct. 31, 2019 photo, Frieder Reimold, former Berlin bureau chief of AP’s German service, shows an undated photo from late 1989 or early 1990 showing the staff of the AP German service Berlin offices. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) History didn’t give Reimold a break that night. About an hour into the rambling news conference, Schabowski […]

NOV. 7, 2019

For AP, it’s back to the future

The Associated Press has announced that it will move its corporate headquarters from midtown Manhattan to the Brookfield Place retail and office complex, across West Street from the World Trade Center. The move, planned for early 2017, will take AP back to the future.

AP wins feature photography Pulitzer for Kashmir coverage

An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as Kashmiri Muslims offer Friday prayers on a street outside a local mosque during curfew like restrictions in Srinagar, India, Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) NEW YORK (AP) — The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown […]

MAY 4, 2020

Official vows action after AP reports missing migrant girls

Sister Laurentina, left, stands next to the tombstone of Adelina Sau in Abi village in West Timor, Indonesia, Oct. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana) JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian official vowed on Friday to do more to combat human trafficking after an investigation by The Associated Press revealed that scores of trafficked girls have […]

DEC. 14, 2018

2019 William Allen White award goes to AP’s Sally Buzbee

AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Sally Buzbee. (AP Photo/Chuck Zoeller) The foundation announced Tuesday that Buzbee, a Kansas native and 1988 graduate of the University of Kansas journalism school, will receive the award April 11 in Lawrence, Kansas. Buzbee became the news agency’s executive editor in January 2017. Her AP career began in […]

JAN. 29, 2019

AP reporters memoir recalls civil rights struggle and My Time with the Kings

Former AP journalist Kathryn Johnson was a groundbreaking civil rights reporter, the only journalist Coretta Scott King invited into her home the night of Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968. In a new memoir, Johnson recounts her private moments with the Kings, and adds firsthand insights to the historical record of the tumultuous era.

JAN. 11, 2016