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Across US history, the AP has watched, chronicled and helped people understand a complex world
The cooperative news service says 4 billion people see its reporting daily as it marks 180 years of covering major world events.
- The Associated Press, founded 180 years ago by five New York City newspaper publishers pooling resources to speed news delivery, now reaches 4 billion people daily and has chronicled the American republic's major moments throughout its 250-year history.
- During World War II, AP correspondent Edward Kennedy scored a major scoop reporting Germany's surrender to Allied forces in France on May 7, 1945, yet military censors imposed a 36-hour embargo allowing Russian allies time to stage a second surrender ceremony.
- When TV networks prematurely called Florida for Democrat Al Gore during the 2000 election, the AP refused to follow; Washington bureau chief Sandy Johnson later recalled in a 2020 C-SPAN podcast that the race was 'simply too close to call' after an initial error overstated Gore's county margin.
- AP reporter Kathryn Johnson gained exclusive access to the King family home on April 4, 1968, after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while a New York Times reporter was turned away; her professional standards earned praise from Ambassador Andrew Young.
- The agency's visual legacy spans iconic photographs including Joe Rosenthal's U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, Eddie Adams's 1968 Vietnam execution image, and Evan Vucci's shot of bloodied Donald Trump following a 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Across US history, the AP has watched, chronicled and helped people understand a complex world
Precisely 180 years ago, a handful of New York news executives looking to save money on coverage had an idea. Today, it is called The Associated Press.
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