Associated Press

The Associated Press is a nonprofit news cooperative that gathers and distributes reporting, photographs, and other media to subscribers worldwide.

News agency: An organization that gathers news and distributes it to media outlets, institutions, or the public. AP operates as a news agency, supplying reporting to organizations that may lack its own coverage.
1846 Mexican-American War: The conflict between the United States and Mexico that lasted from 1846 to 1848. New York newspapers formed AP’s predecessor in 1846 to share the cost of war coverage.
Kent Cooper: American journalist who led the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948 and expanded its international operations. Cooper built AP’s overseas reporting network and helped establish its modern global reach.
Breaking news: Newly developing events reported as information becomes available. AP’s rapid distribution has helped establish shared timelines for breaking stories.
Reuters: An international news organization founded in London in 1851 and now part of Thomson Reuters. Reuters competes with AP globally but operates within a corporate parent rather than as a member-owned cooperative.
News cooperative: A news organization owned or governed collectively by member publishers or broadcasters. AP’s member organizations jointly own and govern the service they use.
New York Associated Press: A nineteenth-century news cooperative formed by New York newspapers to share news-gathering costs. It was the cooperative predecessor from which the modern Associated Press developed.
Melville Stone: American newspaper editor who served as Associated Press general manager from 1893 to 1921. Stone strengthened AP’s independence and helped make it a national news cooperative.
Journalistic objectivity: A professional ideal of reporting facts accurately while minimizing personal bias and unsupported judgment. AP’s stated reporting standards helped popularize objective news writing across member outlets.
Agence France-Presse: A French international news agency headquartered in Paris and founded in its present form in 1944. AFP is another major global agency, with a distinct French institutional history and governance.

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