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The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War.{{Cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/15108618|title=Network effects|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221035608/http://www.economist.com/node/15108618|archive-date=2018-02-21|url-status=live}} The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun, joined by the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express.Beach, Stanley, [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/850 Archives at Yale, Stanley Yale Beach papers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331233228/https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/850 |date=March 31, 2023 }}, Number: GEN MSS 802, 1911–1948{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/06/26/the-birth-of-atari-modern-computer-design-and-the-software-industry-this-week-in-tech-history/|title=The Birth of Atari, Modern Computer Design, And The Software Industry: This Week In Tech History|last=Press|first=Gil|work=Forbes|access-date=2018-02-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221040359/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/06/26/the-birth-of-atari-modern-computer-design-and-the-software-industry-this-week-in-tech-history/|archive-date=2018-02-21|url-status=live}} Some historians{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&q=tribune+associated+press+1849&pg=PA93|title=The Nation's Newsbrokers: The formative years, from pretelegraphs to 1865|last=Schwarzlose|first=Richard Allen|date=1989|publisher=Northwestern University Press|isbn=978-0-8101-0818-9|page=93|access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104124424/https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=Us-kDH5LqHEC&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=tribune%20associated%20press%201849|archive-date=January 4, 2019|url-status=live}} believe that the New-York Tribune joined at this time; documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member in September 1851.

Initially known as the New York Associated Press (NYAP), the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press (1862), which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. An investigation completed in 1892 by Victor Lawson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, revealed that several principals of the NYAP had entered into a secret agreement with United Press, a rival organization, to share NYAP news and the profits of reselling it. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, the Western Associated Press was incorporated in Illinois as the Associated Press. A 1900 Illinois Supreme Court decision (Inter Ocean Publishing Co. v. Associated Press) holding that the AP was a public utility and operating in restraint of trade resulted in the AP's move from Chicago to New York City, where corporation laws were more favorable to cooperatives.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|title=International News Agencies: A History|last=Palmer|first=Michael B.|date=2019|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3-030-31177-3|page=69|access-date=3 June 2020|archive-date=March 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326164823/https://books.google.com/books?id=fNHHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA69|url-status=live}}

Melville Stone, who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP general manager from 1893 to 1921. The AP adopted teletype for its New York service in 1914.{{Cite book |last1=Sloan |first1=W. David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rziNAgAAQBAJ&dq=teletypewriter+newsrooms&pg=PA353 |title=American Journalism: History, Principles, Practices |last2=Parcell |first2=Lisa Mullikin |year=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5155-5 |language=en}} The cooperative grew rapidly under the leadership of Kent Cooper, who served from 1925 to 1948 and who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and (after World War II), the Middle East. Under Kent Cooper, the AP became a more prevalent member of a press agency cartel made up of Reuters and Havas (now Agence France-Presse). He lobbied for the renegotiation of the tripartite contract binding the agencies and their respective news markets at the League of Nations in 1927, attempting to give the AP a more important place in competition with Reuters.{{Cite journal |last=Allen |first=Gene |date=2016 |title=Catching Up with the Competition: The International Expansion of Associated Press, 1920–1945 |journal=Journalism Studies |volume=17 |pages=747–762 |doi=10.1080/1461670X.2015.1017410 |jstor=}} In 1935, the AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave the AP a major advantage over other news media outlets. While the first network was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually the AP had its network across the whole United States.{{cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rNoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA392 |title=Wire That Photo |journal=Popular Mechanics |date=July 1937 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |archive-date=May 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506222441/https://books.google.com/books?id=rNoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA392#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}

In 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. United States{{cite web |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/ |title=Associated Press v. United States, 326 U.S. 1 (1945) |date=1945 |website=Justia |access-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505000929/https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/326/1/ |archive-date=May 5, 2022}} that the AP had been violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by prohibiting member newspapers from selling or providing news to nonmember organizations as well as making it very difficult for nonmember newspapers to join the AP.{{cite web |url=https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states |title=Associated Press v. United States (1945) |last=Vile |first=John R |website=The First Amendment Encyclopedia |access-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526215914/https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/45/associated-press-v-united-states |archive-date=May 26, 2022}}

The AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations; it created its own radio network in 1974. In 1994, it established APTV, a global video newsgathering agency. APTV merged with Worldwide Television News in 1998 to form APTN, which provides video to international broadcasters and websites. In 2004, the AP moved its headquarters from its long time home at 50 Rockefeller Plaza to 450 West 33rd Street in Manhattan. In 2019, AP had more than 240 bureaus globally.{{Cite web |title=AP by the numbers |website=Associated Press |date=2019 |access-date=10 September 2020 |url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214065039/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2019/ap-by-the-numbers }} Its mission—"to gather with economy and efficiency an accurate and impartial report of the news"—has not changed since its founding, but digital technology has made the distribution of the AP news report an interactive endeavor between the AP and its 1,400 U.S. newspaper members as well as broadcasters, international subscribers, and online customers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}

The AP began diversifying its news gathering capabilities. By 2007 the AP was generating only about 30% of its revenue from United States newspapers, and by 2024, this had declined to 10%. 37% came from the global broadcast customers, 15% from online ventures and 18% came from international newspapers and from photography.{{cite news |title=Down On The Wire |url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html |quote=Last year, AP generated only about 30% of its revenue from U.S. newspapers. The rest came from global broadcast customers (37%), online ventures (15%) and other revenue sources, such as international clients and photography, (18%). Forbes.com is a customer of AP |work=Forbes|access-date=2009-04-09|date=2008-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331174432/http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/13/media-newspapers-ap-biz-media-cx_lh_0214ap.html |archive-date=31 March 2009 |url-status=live |first=Louis |last=Hau}}

In March 2024, Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation, announced that effective March 25, 2024, it would no longer use content from the AP. A spokesperson for AP said that they were "shocked and disappointed" by this development.{{cite news |last1=Korach |first1=Natalie |title=USA Today Publisher Gannett to Drop Associated Press Content Across All Publications |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usa-today-publisher-gannett-drop-172126799.html |access-date=March 19, 2024 |publisher=Yahoo News |date=March 19, 2024 |archive-date=March 19, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240319194128/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/usa-today-publisher-gannett-drop-172126799.html |url-status=live }} Newspaper chain McClatchy announced that it would also stop using some AP services. Gannett and McClatchy will both continue to use AP's election results data.{{cite news |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |last2=Robertson |first2=Katie |title=Gannett and McClatchy Cut Back Relationship With A.P. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/media/gannett-mcclatchy-ap-associated-press.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |work=New York Times |date=March 19, 2024 |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320001233/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/media/gannett-mcclatchy-ap-associated-press.html |url-status=live }}

The AP's multi-topic structure has resulted in web portals such as Yahoo! and MSN posting its articles, often relying on the AP as their first source for news coverage of breaking news items. This and the constant updating evolving stories require has had a major impact on the AP's public image and role, giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. In 2007, Google announced that it was paying to receive AP content, to be displayed in Google News,{{cite news |title=Google News Becomes A Publisher |url=http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |quote='Because the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, U.K. Press Association and the Canadian Press don't have a consumer Web site where they publish their content, they have not been able to benefit from the traffic that Google News drives to other publishers,' Josh Cohen, business product manager for Google News, explained in a blog post. |work=Information Week |date=August 31, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080627154658/http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PBT2QGMTUGF0AQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=201803549&_requestid=555255 |archive-date=June 27, 2008 |url-status=live }} interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to a licensing dispute.{{cite news |title=Google Stops Hosting New AP Content |url=http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |access-date=2010-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112081900/http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-stops-hosting-new-ap-content |archive-date=12 January 2010 |url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Google, AP reach deal for Google News content|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|publisher=CNET|date=August 30, 2010|access-date=2012-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200432/http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20015053-265.html|archive-date=January 2, 2014|url-status=live}}

A 2017 study by NewsWhip revealed that AP content was more engaged with on Facebook than content from any individual English-language publisher.{{Cite press release|url=https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|title=AP content drives more Facebook engagements than individual publishers in June, July|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407053939/https://www.ap.org/press-releases/2017/ap-content-drives-more-facebook-engagements-than-individual-publishers-in-june-july|archive-date=2018-04-07|url-status=live}}

In June 2024, Axios reported that the AP would be launching a nonprofit with the goal of expanding state and local news, hoping to raise $100 million.{{Cite web |last=Fischer |first=Sara |date=June 25, 2024 |title=Exclusive: AP launching nonprofit group to raise at least $100M for local news |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/06/25/ap-local-news-nonprofit-journalism |website=Axios}}

• 1849: The Harbor News Association opened the first news bureau outside the United States in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to meet ships sailing from Europe before they reached dock in New York.
• 1876: Mark Kellogg, a stringer, was the first AP news correspondent to be killed while reporting the news, at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
• 1893: Melville E. Stone became the general manager of the reorganized the AP, a post he held until 1921. Under his leadership, the AP grew to be one of the world's most prominent news agencies.
• 1899: The AP used Guglielmo Marconi's wireless telegraph to cover the America's Cup yacht race off Sandy Hook, New Jersey, the first news test of the new technology.
• 1914: The AP introduced the teleprinter, which transmitted directly to printers over telegraph wires. Eventually a worldwide network of 60-word-per-minute teleprinter machines is built.
• 1935: The AP initiated WirePhoto, the world's first wire service for photographs. The first photograph to transfer over the network depicted an airplane crash in Morehouse, New York, on New Year's Day, 1935.
• 1938: The AP expanded new offices at 50 Rockefeller Plaza (known as "50 Rock") under an agreement made as part of the construction of Rockefeller Center in New York City. The building would remain its headquarters for 66 years.{{Cite press release|title=AP leaves 50 Rock for West 33rd Street Headquarters|website=Associated Press|date=2004-07-19|url=http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_071904.html|access-date=2009-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090427134855/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_071904.html|archive-date=2009-04-27|url-status=live}}
• 1941: The AP expanded from print to radio broadcast news.
• {{anchor|Times Wide World Photo| Wide World Photo| Wide World News Photo Service}}1941: Wide World News Photo Service purchased from The New York Times.{{cite news|author1=Rachel L. Swarns, Darcy Eveleigh and Damien Cave|title=Unpublished Black History|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history|access-date=February 1, 2016|work=The New York Times|date=February 1, 2016|quote=The Times's picture agency, Wide World News Photo Service, which had staff members in London, Berlin and elsewhere, was sold to The Associated Press in 1941.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201021932/http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/national/unpublished-black-history|archive-date=February 1, 2016|url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Wide World, Inc., Sold To The A.P.; News Photo Service in Western Hemisphere Will Be Turned Over to New Owners Friday Cooper Tells of Plans Purchase in Line With Policy of Accelerating Collection and Output of Pictures |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/26/archives/wide-world-inc-sold-to-the-ap-news-photo-service-in-western.html |access-date=30 April 2023 |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=26 July 1941 |archive-date=April 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230430051853/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/07/26/archives/wide-world-inc-sold-to-the-ap-news-photo-service-in-western.html |url-status=live }}
• 1943: The AP sends Ruth Cowan Nash to cover the deployment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps to Algeria. Nash is the first American woman war correspondent.[https://niemanreports.org/articles/go-to-war-i-did-and-at-considerable-trouble/ "Go to War I Did, and at Considerable Trouble"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726104418/https://niemanreports.org/articles/go-to-war-i-did-and-at-considerable-trouble/ |date=July 26, 2020 }} Ramirez, Maria. Nieman Reports, Nieman Foundation at Harvard.
• 1945: AP war correspondent Joseph Morton was executed along with nine OSS men and four British SOE agents by the Germans at Mauthausen concentration camp. Morton was the only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis during World War II. That same year, AP Paris bureau chief Edward Kennedy defied an Allied headquarters news blackout to report Nazi Germany's surrender, touching off a bitter episode that led to his eventual dismissal by the AP. Kennedy maintains that he reported only what German radio already had broadcast.
• 1951: AP war correspondent Prague bureau chief William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. He was not released until 1953.
• 1974: The AP launches the Associated Press Radio Network headquartered in Washington, D.C.
• 1987: The AP switches to color photography completely after the public suicide of American politician R. Budd Dwyer.{{Cite web |last=Zhang |first=Michael |date=2016-12-23 |title=The Day That Made AP Photographers Switch to 100% Color Film |url=https://petapixel.com/2016/12/23/day-made-ap-photographers-switch-100-color-film/ |access-date=2024-05-08 |website=PetaPixel |language=en}}
• 1994: The AP launches APTV, a global video news gathering agency, headquartered in London.
• 2004: The AP moves its headquarters from 50 Rock to 450 West 33rd Street, New York City.
• 2006: The AP joins YouTube.
• 2008: The AP launched AP Mobile (initially known as the AP Mobile News Network), a multimedia news portal that gives users news they can choose and provides anytime access to international, national and local news. The AP was the first to debut a dedicated iPhone application in June 2008 on stage at Apple's WWDC event. The app offered AP's own worldwide coverage of breaking news, sports, entertainment, politics and business as well as content from more than 1,000 AP members and third-party sources.Associated Press (2009-05-21). [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html "AP Mobile rings in one-year anniversary"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219092206/http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_052109a.html |date=February 19, 2010 }}, AP, Press Release.
• 2008: The AP opens its Pyongyang bureau.{{Cite web|title=Jean H. Lee|url=https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jean-h-lee|access-date=2021-11-13|publisher=Wilson Center|archive-date=November 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211113234604/https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/jean-h-lee|url-status=live}}
• 2010: The AP launched multi-device World Cup Soccer Applications providing real-time news coverage of the 2010 World Cup on desktop, Apple and Android devices.
• 2010: AP earnings fall 65% from 2008 to just $8.8{{nbsp}}million. The AP also announced that it would have posted a loss of $4.4{{nbsp}}million had it not liquidated its German-language news service for $13.2{{nbsp}}million.{{cite web |title=Associated Press Reports Narrow 2009 Profit|publisher=Media Post|date=2010-04-30|url= http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_companies/associated_press_reports_narrowed_2009_profit_160099.asp|access-date=2010-04-30| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100504052734/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/media_companies/associated_press_reports_narrowed_2009_profit_160099.asp| archive-date= 4 May 2010 | url-status= live}}
• 2011: AP revenue dropped $14.7{{nbsp}}million in 2010. 2010 revenue totaled $631{{nbsp}}million, a decline of 7% from the previous year. The AP rolled out price cuts designed to help newspapers and broadcasters cope with declining revenue.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=14 April 2011|title=AP loses $14.7M in 2010 as revenue falls 7 percent|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-loses-147m-in-2010-as-revenue-falls-7-percent/|access-date=13 January 2021|website=The Seattle Times|archive-date=February 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226014337/https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ap-loses-147m-in-2010-as-revenue-falls-7-percent/|url-status=live}}
• 2012: Gary B. Pruitt succeeded Tom Curley to become president and CEO. Pruitt is the 13th leader of the AP in its 166-year history.{{cite news| title= Gary Pruitt, of McClatchy, to become new president and CEO of The Associated Press| url= http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2012/gary-pruitt-of-mcclatchy-to-become-new-president-and-ceo-of-the-associated-press|agency= Associated Press| access-date= 14 December 2012| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121214084533/http://ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/Gary-Pruitt-of-McClatchy-to-become-new-president-and-CEO-of-The-Associated-Press| archive-date= 14 December 2012| url-status= live}}
• 2016: The AP reported that income dropped to $1.6{{nbsp}}million from $183.6{{nbsp}}million in 2015. The 2015 profit figure was bolstered by a one-time, $165{{nbsp}}million tax benefit.{{cite news |title=Newspaper decline continues to weigh on AP earnings |url=https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |agency=Associated Press |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=2018-07-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718055350/https://www.ap.org/ap-in-the-news/2017/newspaper-decline-continues-to-weigh-on-ap-earnings |archive-date=2018-07-18 |url-status=live }}
• 2017: The AP moved its headquarters to 200 Liberty Street, New York City.
• 2018: The AP unveiled AP Votecast to replace exit polls for the 2018 US midterm elections.{{Cite web |url=https://blog.ap.org/products-and-services/ap-votecast-debuts-tuesday |title=AP VoteCast debuts Tuesday |website=Associated Press Blog |last=Easton |first=Lauren |access-date=November 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109153234/https://blog.ap.org/products-and-services/ap-votecast-debuts-tuesday |archive-date=November 9, 2018 |url-status=live }}

The AP is governed by an elected board of directors.{{cite web |title=Facts & Figures: AP Board of Directors |publisher=Associated Press |url=http://www.ap.org/Company/Board-of-Directors |url-status=live |access-date=November 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314182613/http://ap.org/company/board-of-directors |archive-date=2012-03-14}} Since April 2022, the chairperson is Gracia C. Martore, former president and CEO of Tegna, Inc.{{Cite web |title=AP announces 1 director, 4 incumbents at annual meeting |url=https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-1-director-4-incumbents-at-annual-meeting/ |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=The Associated Press |language=en-US |archive-date=April 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416190102/https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2022/ap-announces-1-director-4-incumbents-at-annual-meeting/ |url-status=live }}

With its more than 100 regional offices, AP also reports from countries where press freedom is restricted, sometimes under adverse circumstances.

In 2025, restrictions preventing AP reporting in the U.S. were imposed by the second Trump administration.{{Cite web |title=USA: Weißes Haus schließt AP-Reporter von Veranstaltung aus |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/usa-weisses-haus-associated-press-reporter-trump-100.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de}} In February 2025, two AP reporters were barred from covering several events at the White House, because of the AP refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America”, as directed by the White House.{{Cite web |last=Gold |first=Hadas |date=2025-02-11 |title=The AP says it was blocked from the Oval Office over continuing to use "Gulf of Mexico" {{!}} CNN Business |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/11/media/ap-blocked-from-oval-office/index.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=CNN |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca |first=Zone International- |date=2025-02-12 |title=" Golfe du Mexique " ou " d'Amérique " : la Maison-Blanche pénalise l'Associated Press |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2139689/golfe-mexique-amerique-associated-press |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Radio-Canada |language=fr-ca}}{{Cite web |date=2025-02-12 |title="Golfe d'Amérique": un journaliste de l'agence AP privé d'accès à un événement à la Maison-Blanche |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/golfe-d-amerique-un-journaliste-de-l-agence-ap-prive-d-acces-a-un-evenement-a-la-maison-blanche-20250212 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}} The restrictions against AP were extended to other reporting opportunities such as in Air Force One. On February 21, 2025, the AP sued the Trump administration in Associated Press v. Budowich for blocking their attendance.{{cite news |last1=Folkenflik |first1=David |title=AP sues Trump White House for denying access over 'Gulf of Mexico' row |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/02/21/nx-s1-5305226/ap-sues-white-house-gulf-of-america-mexico-trump |access-date=February 21, 2025 |work=NPR |date=February 21, 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Schonfeld |first1=Zach |title=AP sues over White House access restrictions |url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5158288-ap-sues-white-house/ |access-date=February 21, 2025 |work=The HIll |date=February 21, 2025}}{{cite web |title=AP v. Budowich |url=https://www.ap.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AP-v.-Budowich-Complaint.pdf |website=Associated Press |access-date=February 21, 2025 |date=February 21, 2025}}

On February 24, 2025, a federal judge declined to issue an immediate order compelling the White House to reinstate access to presidential events to AP, although he encouraged the White House to do so. Following the decision, the White House released a statement asserting that "the ability to pose questions to the President of the United States in the Oval Office and aboard Air Force One constitutes a privilege extended to journalists, rather than a legally enshrined right."{{cite web | last=Sedensky | first=Matt | title=Judge rejects immediately restoring AP's access to White House but urges government to reconsider | website=AP News | date=2025-02-24 | url=https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-gulf-mexico-america-6b6fba488e7e420e5fcd28c44a755922 | access-date=2025-02-24}}{{cite web |last1=Grumbach |first1=Gary |last2=Madani |first2=Dana |title=Trump administration does not have to allow The Associated Press access yet, judge rules |website=NBC News |date=2025-02-24 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/associated-press-white-house-access-rcna193531}}LiveNow from Fox, with Karoline Leavitt, {{YouTube|BwjiWAzqo_k|t=286s|FULL: White House press briefing with Karoline Leavitt}}, Feb 26, 2025, minutes 4:25–8:45; 13:43–15:02.

On April 8, 2025, Judge Trevor McFadden ruled that the White House must lift the access restrictions they placed on the AP while the AP v. Budowich lawsuit moves forward.Vance, Joyce, [https://joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-versus-the-free-press Trump Versus the Free Press], Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, Substack, April 8, 2025{{cite news |last1=Goudsward |first1=Andrew |title=Judge lifts Trump White House restrictions on AP while lawsuit proceeds |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/judge-lifts-trump-white-house-restrictions-ap-while-lawsuit-proceeds-2025-04-08/ |access-date=April 8, 2025 |work=Reuters |date=April 8, 2025}}

The AP is the only organization that collects and verifies election results in every city and county across the United States, including races for the U.S. president, the Senate and House of Representatives, and governors as well as other statewide offices.{{cite web |title=Understanding the Election |url=https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election |website=Associated Press |access-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223204033/https://www.ap.org/media-center/understanding-the-election |url-status=live }} Known for accuracy, the organization has collected and published presidential election data since 1848.{{cite news |last1=Storey |first1=Kate |date=October 29, 2020 |title=How the Associated Press Plans to Determine the Winner of This Year's Election |url=https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130143928/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a34496862/how-associated-press-counts-us-presidential-election-votes-results/ |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |access-date=November 15, 2020 |work=Esquire}} Major news outlets rely on the polling data and results provided by the Associated Press before declaring a winner in major political races, particularly the presidential election.{{cite news |last1=Sadler |first1=Megan |title=How the Associated Press calls election races and ensures vote count accuracy |url=https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/ |access-date=November 15, 2020 |work=WVLT-TV |agency=Associated Press |date=November 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110181846/https://www.wvlt.tv/2020/11/10/how-the-associated-press-calls-election-races-and-ensures-vote-count-accuracy/ |url-status=live }}

In declaring the winners, the AP has historically relied on a robust network of local reporters with first-hand knowledge of assigned territories who also have long-standing relationships with county clerks as well as other local officials. Moreover, the AP monitors and gathers data from county websites and electronic feeds provided by states. The research team further verifies the results by considering demographics, number of absentee ballots, and other political issues that may have an effect on the final results. In 2018, the AP introduced a new system called AP VoteCast, which was developed together with NORC at the University of Chicago in order to further improve the reliability of its data and overcome biases of its legacy exit poll.{{cite web |title=AP VoteCast |url=https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about |website=Associated Press |access-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223210751/https://www.ap.org/en-us/topics/politics/elections/ap-votecast/about |url-status=live }}

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The AP conducts polls for numerous college sports in the United States. The AP college football rankings were created in 1936, and began including the top 25 teams in 1989. Since 1969, the final poll of each season has been released after all bowl games have been played.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html|title=The best and worst of LSU's AP preseason poll history|work=NOLA.com|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225231/https://www.nola.com/lsu/index.ssf/2017/08/post_205.html|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}} The AP released its all-time Top 25 in 2016.{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakewilliams3012/2016/08/21/what-the-last-five-seasons-of-the-ap-poll-say-about-trending-teams-in-college-football/|title=What The Last Five Seasons Of The AP Poll Say About Trending Teams In College Football|last=Williams|first=Blake|work=Forbes|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720200305/https://www.forbes.com/sites/blakewilliams3012/2016/08/21/what-the-last-five-seasons-of-the-ap-poll-say-about-trending-teams-in-college-football/|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}} {{as of|2017}}, 22 different programs had finished in the number one spot of the poll since its inception.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2017-08-21/college-football-rankings-who-has-been-no-1-ap-preseason-poll-most|title=College football rankings: Who has been No. 1 in the AP preseason poll most often and how did they finish?|date=2017-08-21|publisher=NCAA|access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720195201/https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2017-08-21/college-football-rankings-who-has-been-no-1-ap-preseason-poll-most|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}} In the pre-bowl game determination era, the AP poll was often used as the distinction for a national champion in football.

The AP college basketball poll has been used as a guide for which teams deserve national attention. The AP first began its poll of college basketball teams in 1949, and has since conducted over 1,100 polls. The college basketball poll started with 20 teams and was reduced to 10 during the 1960–61 college basketball season. It returned to 20 teams in 1968–69 and expanded to 25 beginning in 1989–90. The final poll for each season is released prior to the conclusion of the NCAA tournament, so all data includes regular season games only. In 2017, The AP released a list of the Top 100 teams of all time. The poll counted poll appearances (one point) and No. 1 rankings (two points) to rank each team.{{Cite news |date=March 29, 2017 |title=AP Top 25 polls highlight Top 100 all-time in college basketball |work=The Denver Post |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225211/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/29/ap-top-100-college-basketball-programs-all-time/ |archive-date=July 20, 2018}}

The AP began its Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league.[http://www.baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml AP Manager of the Year Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201204555/http://baseball-almanac.com/awards/aw_mgy2.shtml |date=February 1, 2010 }}. Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved 2009-09-29. Although the award began in 1959, AP gave a "manager of the year" award in 1950 to Eddie Sawyer of the Philadelphia Phillies.{{Cite news|title=Eddie Sawyer Honored in Baseball Vote|work=Prescott Evening Courier|date=November 8, 1950|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502|page=Section 2, Page 1|access-date=2010-09-16|archive-date=February 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227110618/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7tIKAAAAIBAJ&pg=6370,6584502}} From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB.In 1959, when the AP began its Manager of the Year Award for a manager in each league, The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award (begun in 1936) was for one manager in all of MLB. In 1983, MLB began its own Manager of the Year Award, for a manager in each league. The following year (1984) the AP changed its award to one in all of MLB. In 1986, The Sporting News changed its award to one for each league. The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001.

Every year, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards. It also honors a group of All-American players.

• AP NFL Coach of the Year
• AP NFL Most Valuable Player
• AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year
• AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year
• AP NFL Rookie of the Year
• AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year

{{Main|Associated Press Television News}}

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In 1994, London-based Associated Press Television (APTV) was founded to provide agency news material to television broadcasters.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|title=A.P. Buys Worldwide Television News|agency=Reuters|newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 3, 1998 |access-date=July 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709100154/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/03/business/ap-buys-worldwide-television-news.html|archive-date=2018-07-09|url-status=live}} In 1998, the AP purchased Worldwide Television News (WTN) from the ABC News division of The Walt Disney Company, Nine Network Australia and ITN London. The AP publishes 70,000 videos and 6,000 hours of live video per year, {{as of|2016|lc=y}}. The agency also provides seven simultaneous live video channels, AP Direct for broadcasters, and six{{cite web |url=https://www.ap.org/solutions/services/ap-live-choice/ |title=AP Live Choice |publisher=The Associated Press |access-date=13 August 2024}} live channels on AP Live Choice for broadcasters and digital publishers. The AP was the first news agency to launch a live video news service in 2003.{{Cite news|url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/ap-experiments-with-live-streams-as-appetite-for-up-to-the-minute-video-grows-/s2/a601343/|title=AP experiments with live streams as appetite for up-to-the-minute video grows |work=Journalism.co.uk |last=Ciobanu |first=Mădălina|date=2016-01-13|access-date=2018-04-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720225134/https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/ap-experiments-with-live-streams-as-appetite-for-up-to-the-minute-video-grows-/s2/a601343/|archive-date=July 20, 2018|url-status=live}}

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The AP collaborated with Nazi Germany and gave to it access to its photographic archives for its antisemitic Nazi propaganda.{{cite news |last1=Philip Oltermann |title=Revealed: how Associated Press cooperated with the Nazis |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg |access-date=July 4, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=March 30, 2016 |quote=AP also allowed the Nazi regime to use its photo archives for its virulently antisemitic propaganda literature. Publications illustrated with AP photographs include the bestselling SS brochure Der Untermensch ("The Sub-Human") and the booklet "The Jews in the USA", which aimed to demonstrate the decadence of Jewish Americans with a picture of New York mayor Fiorello La Guardia eating from a buffet with his hands. |archive-date=August 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823192403/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/30/associated-press-cooperation-nazis-revealed-germany-harriet-scharnberg |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf |author=Harriet Scharnberg|title=The A and P of Propaganda, Associated Press and Nazi Photojournalism |access-date=September 29, 2022 |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020145848/https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/sites/default/files/medien/Druckausgabe/2016-1/ZF_1_2016_Scharnberg_en.pdf |url-status=live }} AP also cooperated with the Nazi regime through censorship.{{cite web |title=The Associated Press Cooperated With The Nazis |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/title-of-article |access-date=2021-04-19 |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020052954/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/title-of-article |url-status=live }}

In 2017, the German historian Norman Domeier of the University of Vienna brought to wider attention the deal between the AP and the Nazi government related to the interchange of press photos during the period in which the United States was at war with Nazi Germany.{{cite news |author-last=Rosenwald |author-first=Michael S. |date=10 May 2017 |title=The secret deal the Associated Press made with the Nazis during WWII |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/ |url-status=live |newspaper=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=2269358 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230091547/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/10/the-secret-deal-the-associated-press-made-with-the-nazis-during-wwii/ |archive-date=30 December 2022 |access-date=19 May 2023}} This relationship involved the Bureau Laux, run by the Waffen-SS photographer Helmut Laux.{{cite news |author-last=Crary |author-first=David |title=AP releases in-depth review of its coverage of Nazi Germany |url=https://apnews.com/article/new-york-race-and-ethnicity-world-war-ii-germany-archive-7fb06e5ff1d94ed5859b5eeaf4f16b45 |access-date=13 July 2021 |publisher=Associated Press |date=May 10, 2017 |quote=With the U.S. entry into the war against Germany in December 1941, AP's American staff members were arrested and interned for five months before being deported in a prisoner exchange. The AP German picture service was seized, handed over to the German Foreign Ministry and put under control of a Waffen-SS photographer, Helmut Laux. Most German former AP personnel were forced into Laux's operation; others were sent to military units. |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713160037/https://apnews.com/article/new-york-race-and-ethnicity-world-war-ii-germany-archive-7fb06e5ff1d94ed5859b5eeaf4f16b45 |url-status=live }}

The mechanism for this interchange involved a courier flying to Lisbon and back each day transporting photos from and for Nazi Germany's wartime enemy, the United States, via diplomatic pouch. The transactions were initially conducted at the AP bureau under Luiz Lupi in Lisbon, and from 1944, when the exchange via Lisbon took too long, also at the AP bureau in Stockholm under Eddie Shanke. Here, as a cover, the Swedish agency, {{Ill|Pressens Bild|sv}}, was involved as an intermediary. An estimated 40,000 photos were exchanged between the enemies in this way.{{cite web |trans-title=Secret Photos. The Cooperation between Associated Press (AP) and Nazi Germany 1942–1945 |work=Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History 14 |date=2017 |author=Norman Domeier |title=Geheime Fotos – Die Kooperation von Associated Press und NS-Regime (1942–1945) |url=http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/id=5484 |access-date=March 8, 2020 |archive-date=May 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515174901/https://zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2017/id=5484 |url-status=live }} The AP was kicked out of Nazi Germany when the United States entered World War II in December 1941.

In his book Broken Spring: An American-Israeli Reporter's Close-up View of How Egyptians Lost Their Struggle for Freedom, former AP correspondent Mark Lavie claimed that the editorial line of the Cairo bureau was that the conflict was Israel's fault and the Arabs and Palestinians were blameless.{{cite news | last=Friedman |first=Matti |author-link=Matti Friedman | title = What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel | url = https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/ | access-date = 10 December 2014 | work = The Atlantic | date = 30 November 2014 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210143643/http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/how-the-media-makes-the-israel-story/383262/3/ | archive-date = 10 December 2014 | url-status = live }}{{cite news |title= Broken Spring by Mark Lavie |url= http://www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie |access-date= 10 December 2014 |work= Times of Israel |date= 15 September 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141215104230/http://www.timesofisrael.com/broken-spring-by-mark-lavie/ |archive-date= 15 December 2014 |url-status= live }}{{cite news |last1 = Lavie |first1 = Mark |title = Why Everything Reported from Gaza is Crazy Twisted |url = http://www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted |access-date = 10 December 2014 |work = The Tower |date = August 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210150516/http://www.thetower.org/article/why-everything-reported-from-gaza-is-crazy-twisted/ |archive-date = 10 December 2014 |url-status = live }} Israeli journalist Matti Friedman accused the AP of killing a story he wrote about the "war of words", "between Israel and its critics in human rights organizations", in the aftermath of the Israel/Gaza conflict of 2008–09.

On September 29, 2000, the first day of the Second Intifada, the AP published a photograph of a badly bloodied young man behind whom a police officer could be seen with a baton raised in a menacing fashion; a gas station with Hebrew lettering could also be seen in the background.{{Cite news |date=September 10, 2010 |title=The pictures that are worth more than 1000 words |url=https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220602/https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words |archive-date=September 30, 2021 |access-date=September 30, 2021 |work=The Jerusalem Post}}{{Cite news|title=This Week in Israeli History: Tuvia Grossman – The Bloodied 'Palestinian', Bar Giora and Menachem Ussishkin|url=https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220601/https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Markl|first=Florian|title="'Israel Threatens to Defend Itself': The Depiction of Israel in the Media". In Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective (eds. Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Florian Markl)|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2021|location=Berlin, Boston|pages=473–474}} The AP labelled it with the caption "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount", and the picture and caption were subsequently published in several major American newspapers, including the New York Times.{{Cite news |last=McFadden |first=Robert D. |author-link=Robert D. McFadden |date=2000-10-07 |title=Abruptly, a U.S. Student In Mideast Turmoil's Grip |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/07/world/abruptly-a-us-student-in-mideast-turmoil-s-grip.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130082555/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/07/world/abruptly-a-us-student-in-mideast-turmoil-s-grip.html |archive-date=2013-01-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |quote=The A.P., which had received many pictures of injured Palestinians that day, did not clarify the garbled caption but sent the picture to subscribers with a caption based on the erroneous assumption that Mr. Grossman was a Palestinian. It also misidentified the site, first as the Temple Mount and later as another site in the Old City. Many newspapers published the picture and erroneous captions based on The A.P.'s information. The New York Times misidentified Mr. Grossman in last Saturday's issue as a Palestinian and in some copies misidentified the site as the Temple Mount.}} In reality, the injured man in the photograph was a Jewish yeshiva student from Chicago named Tuvia Grossman, and the police officer, a Druze named Gidon Tzefadi, was protecting Grossman from a Palestinian mob who had clubbed, stoned, and stabbed Grossman. There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount.{{Cite book |last=Beeson |first=Patrick |title='Photojournalism'. In 'Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It' |publisher=McFarland & Co |year=2007 |pages=184, 190}}

The episode is often cited by those who accuse the media of having an anti-Israel bias, and was the impetus for the founding of HonestReporting.{{Cite news|date=2000-10-06|title=Carnage for the Cameras|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|access-date=September 30, 2021|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220542/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB970792194386173971|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Koltermann|first=Felix|title=Fotoreporter im Konflikt: Der internationale Fotojournalismus in Israel/Palästina|publisher=transcript Verlag|year=2017|location=Bielefeld|pages=25 n.3}}{{Cite web|title=The Photo that Started it All|url=https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|access-date=September 30, 2021|website=Honest Reporting|archive-date=October 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003070124/https://honestreporting.com/the-photo-that-started-it-all/|url-status=live}} After a letter from Grossman's father noted the error, the AP, the New York Times, and other papers published corrections; despite these corrections, the photograph continues to be used by critics of Israel as a symbol of Israeli aggression and violence.{{Cite web|date=2003-03-14|title=Nyt & Israel|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|access-date=2021-10-01|website=National Review|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001003306/https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/nyt-israel-tom-gross/|url-status=live}}

During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis, the Israeli army destroyed the al-Jalaa Highrise, a building housing the AP's Gaza offices and Al Jazeera offices. Israel stated that the building housed Hamas military intelligence and had given advanced warning of the strike, and no civilians were harmed.{{cite news |date=8 June 2021 |title=Israel Says Gaza Tower That Housed AP Was Also Hamas Electronic Warfare Site |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says |url-status=live |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319051018/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-08/ap-gaza-tower-housed-hamas-electronic-warfare-site-israel-says |archive-date=19 March 2022}}{{Cite news |date=May 16, 2021 |title=AP's top editor wants investigation into Israeli bombing of its Gaza office |publisher=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807160636/https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/aps-top-editor-wants-investigation-into-israeli-bombing-its-gaza-office-2021-05-16/ |archive-date=2021-08-07}} AP CEO Gary Pruitt released a statement on May 16, stating that he "had no indication Hamas was in the building" and called on the Israeli government to provide the evidence. He said that "the world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today."{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d|title=Statement: AP 'horrified' by Israeli attack on its office|date=May 16, 2021|website=Associated Press|access-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210516130244/https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d|archive-date=May 16, 2021|url-status=live}}

On May 17, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said he had not seen any evidence that Hamas operated from the building housing the AP and Al Jazeera, but it is the job of others to handle intelligence matters. Israel reportedly shared intelligence with American officials and U.S. president Joe Biden showing Hamas offices inside the building.{{cite news |title=Israel showed US 'smoking gun' on Hamas in AP office tower, officials say |url=https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303 |access-date=28 June 2021 |work=Jerusalem Post |date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526000159/https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-showed-us-smoking-gun-on-hamas-in-ap-office-tower-officials-say-668303 |url-status=live }}

Reporters Without Borders asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the bombing as a possible war crime.{{cite news |title=Blinken hasn't seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike |url=https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e |access-date=27 May 2021 |work=AP NEWS |date=17 May 2021 |archive-date=May 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527191818/https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-government-and-politics-abd641af1607fbae7f49e1cce7dbc49e |url-status=live }}

On June 8, Israeli Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan met with AP CEO Gary Pruitt and vice president for foreign news, Ian Phillips, to discuss the operation. In coordination with the IDF, Erdan said the site was used by Hamas intelligence officials to develop and carry out electronic warfare operations,{{cite news |date=9 June 2021 |title=Blinken hasn't seen any evidence on AP Gaza building strike |work=Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/erdan-hamas-tried-to-develop-iron-dome-busting-tech-in-ap-gaza-building-670433 |access-date=28 June 2021 |archive-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628151418/https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/erdan-hamas-tried-to-develop-iron-dome-busting-tech-in-ap-gaza-building-670433 |url-status=live }} and that IDF did not suspect the AP was aware of the alleged covert Hamas presence. After the meeting the AP stated "We have yet to receive evidence to support these claims". Erdan later tweeted "Israel is willing to assist AP in rebuilding its offices and operations in Gaza."{{Cite web |last=Fung |first=Katherine |date=June 8, 2021 |title=Israel offers to help rebuild Associated Press building destroyed in Gaza bombing |url=https://www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220611231613/https://www.newsweek.com/israel-offers-help-rebuild-associated-press-building-destroyed-gaza-bombing-1598655 |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |work=Newsweek |access-date=June 12, 2022 }}

In May 2021, the AP said it would launch a review of its social media policies after questions were raised about the firing of a journalist who expressed pro-Palestinian views on social media. The announcement came after some AP journalists signed a letter expressing concern over the termination of former news associate Emily Wilder, whom the AP said committed multiple violations of the company's social media policy. The AP has said that Wilder's previous activism played no role in her termination.{{Citation |title=AP vice president speaks out on Emily Wilder firing |date=May 30, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |publisher=CNN Reliable Sources |access-date=June 12, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328173028/https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |url-status=live }}

In May 2024, Israeli officials seized equipment broadcasting a live stream of Northern Gaza from the town of Sderot as part of a ban on Al Jazeera Media in Israel which had received footage from the broadcast. The move was condemned by multiple journalism organizations, Israeli opposition politicians, and US government officials. In a press briefing, the spokesperson for the National Security Council commented on the seizure, saying "The White House and the State Department immediately engaged with the government of Israel at high levels to express our serious concern and ask them to reverse this action."{{cite news |last1=Federman |first1=Josef |last2=Kirka |first2=Danica |title=Israel says it will return video equipment seized from AP |url=https://apnews.com/article/live-transmission-israel-associated-press-57e8f662907334ba3599156276381190 |access-date=21 May 2024 |publisher=Associated Press |date=21 May 2024}} Later that day, Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi announced via Twitter that the equipment would be returned to the AP and the Israeli Government would review the positioning of the AP broadcast to determine if it posed a security risk.{{Cite tweet |user=shlomo_karhi |number=1792995335721136332 |title=*Ministry of Communication*:The equipment of the media regularly reported on the location of the military forces in the north of the Gaza Strip – and it was confiscated. |language=Hebrew |first=Shlomo |last=Karhi}}

In 1994, Tina Susman was on her fourth trip to Somalia, reporting for the AP. She was reporting on U.S. peacekeeping troops leaving the country. Somali rebels outnumbered her bodyguards in Mogadishu,{{cite news|url=https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|title=Adventurous Thinkers|last=Burford|first=Michelle|publisher=O, The Oprah Magazine|date=July 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203194721/https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/adventurous-thinkers/all|url-status=live}} dragged her from her car in broad daylight,{{cite news|url=https://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=1281&id=1281|title=When a Journalist is Kidnapped |date=September 1994|last=Callahan|first=Christopher|publisher=Philip Merrill College of Journalism}} and held her for 20 days. She told The Quill that she believes being a woman was an advantage in her experience there.{{cite news|url=https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|last=Dietrich|first=Heidi|title=Women in War Zones|publisher=The Quill|date=20 November 2002|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204191438/https://www.quill.spjnetwork.org/2002/11/20/women-in-war-zones/|url-status=live}} The AP had requested news organizations including The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post to suppress the story to discourage the emboldening of the kidnappers.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|title=In Somalia, 20 days of terror and a lesson for journalists|work=The New York Times|first=William|last=Glaberson|date=August 8, 1994|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521121732/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/08/business/media-business-press-somalia-20-days-terror-lesson-for-journalists.html|url-status=live}}

In September 2002, Washington, D.C. bureau reporter Christopher Newton, an AP reporter since 1994, was fired after he was accused of fabricating sources since 2000, including at least 40 people and organizations. Prior to his firing, Newton had been focused on writing about federal law-enforcement while based at the Justice Department. Some of the nonexistent agencies quoted in his stories included "Education Alliance", the "Institute for Crime and Punishment in Chicago", "Voice for the Disabled", and "People for Civil Rights".{{cite news| url = http://www.slate.com/?id=2073304 |title=Fib Newton | date=October 29, 2002 | work=Slate.com |access-date=April 16, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080508022026/http://www.slate.com/?id=2073304| archive-date=May 8, 2008 | url-status=live}}

In 2007, an FBI agent working in Seattle impersonated an AP journalist and infected the computer of a 15-year-old suspect with a malicious surveillance software.{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Mary Ann |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html |title=Associated Press sues after FBI impersonates journalist in sting operation |work=Los Angeles Times |date=August 27, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101449/http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-associated-press-lawsuit-20150827-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }}{{cite news |last=Reilly |first=Ryan |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7 |title=An FBI Agent Did A Pretty Terrible Job Of Pretending To Be A Journalist |work=HuffPost |date=September 15, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180306211618/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fbi-impersonate-ap-journalist_us_57dab3efe4b0071a6e05a3a7 |archive-date=March 6, 2018 }} The incident sparked a strongly worded statement from the AP demanding the bureau never impersonate a member of the news media again.{{cite news |last=Tucker |first=Eric |url=https://apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4 |title=AP demands FBI never again impersonate journalist |work=Associated Press |date=November 10, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101310/https://apnews.com/920b9db9559442a18dcd05037e3093c4 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }} In September 2016 the incident resulted in a report by the Justice Department, which the AP said "effectively condone[d] the FBI's impersonation".{{Cite web|last=Colford|first=Paul|date=September 15, 2016|title=AP statement on inspector general report|url=https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report|access-date=2021-05-15|website=Associated Press – Blog|archive-date=May 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515130517/https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-inspector-general-report|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last=Wemple|first=Erik|date=September 15, 2016|title=Justice Department report 'effectively condone[s]' FBI impersonation incident|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/15/ap-justice-department-report-effectively-condones-fbi-impersonation-incident/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101226/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/09/15/ap-justice-department-report-effectively-condones-fbi-impersonation-incident/|archive-date=December 24, 2017}} In December 2017, following a US court appearance, a judge ruled in favor of the AP in a lawsuit against the FBI for fraudulently impersonating a member of the news media in conjunction with the 2007 case.{{cite news |last=Cohen |first=Kelly |url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647 |title=Appeals Court sides with Associated Press in lawsuit against FBI |work=Washington Examiner |date=December 15, 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101355/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/appeals-court-sides-with-associated-press-in-lawsuit-against-fbi/article/2643647 |archive-date=December 24, 2017 }}{{cite news |last=Gresko |first=Jessica |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html |title=US court hears case involving impersonation of AP journalist |work=Chicago Tribune |date=November 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101405/http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-bc-us--fbi-impersonation-of-journalists-20171113-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2017 |access-date=January 19, 2019 }}

In June 2008, the AP sent numerous DMCA take-down demands and threatened legal action against several blogs. The AP contended that the internet blogs were violating the AP's copyright by linking to AP material and using headlines and short summaries in those links. Many bloggers and experts noted that the use of the AP news fell squarely under commonly accepted internet practices and within fair-use standards.{{cite news |url = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |title = AP's Fair Use Challenge (Harvard Law) |work = Berkman Center for Internet and Society |date = 2008-06-17 |access-date = 2014-06-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110512044752/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |archive-date = 2011-05-12 }} Others noted and demonstrated that the AP routinely takes similar excerpts from other sources, often without attribution or licenses. The AP responded that it was defining standards regarding citations of AP news.{{cite news |title = The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | quote= The Associated Press...said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright. | work =The New York Times| date = June 16, 2008 |access-date=2009-04-09 |first=Saul |last=Hansell| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090409031736/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | archive-date= 9 April 2009 | url-status= live}}

In March 2009, the AP counter-sued artist Shepard Fairey over his famous image of Barack Obama, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism. Fairey had sued the AP the previous month over his artwork, titled "Obama Hope" and "Obama Progress", arguing that he did not violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image. The artwork, based on an April 2006 picture taken for the AP by Mannie Garcia, was a popular image during the 2008 presidential election and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. According to the AP lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Fairey knowingly "misappropriated The AP's rights in that image". The suit asked the court to award the AP profits made off the image and damages. Fairey said he looked forward to "upholding the free expression rights at stake here" and disproving the AP's accusations.{{Cite magazine |last=Kravets |first=David |title=AP Blasts Obama 'Hope' Artist in Copyright Flap |url=https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ap-blasts-obama/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}} In January 2011 this suit was settled with neither side declaring their position to be wrong but agreeing to share reproduction rights and profits from Fairey's work.{{cite news|last=Memmott|first=Mark|title=Shepard Fairey And AP Settle Copyright Dispute Over 'Hope' Poster|url=https://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster|access-date=31 August 2012|work=NPR|date=11 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623172550/http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/01/12/132860606/shepard-fairey-and-ap-settle-copyright-dispute-over-hope-poster|archive-date=23 June 2012|url-status=live}}

In January 2008, the AP sued competitor All Headline News (AHN) claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and a contentious "quasi-property" right to facts.{{Cite news|last=Schonfeld|first=Erick|title=Hot News: The AP Is Living In The Last Century|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html|date=February 22, 2009|access-date=April 25, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604165028/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/22/AR2009022201243.html|archive-date=June 4, 2011|url-status=live}}{{cite news | last= Anderson | first= Nate | title= Who owns the facts? The AP and the 'hot news' controversy | work= Ars Technica | url= https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars | access-date=June 14, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111231024500/http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/05/who-owns-the-facts-the-ap-and-the-hot-news-controversy.ars | archive-date=2011-12-31 | url-status= live }} The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without permission and without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by the AP, a majority of the lawsuit was dismissed.{{Cite court|litigants=The Associated Press v. All Headline News Corp.|vol=08|reporter=Civ.|opinion=323|court=United States District Court, Southern District of New York|date=February 17, 2009|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/12637101/Decision-AP-Hot-News-Doctrine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305065324/https://www.scribd.com/doc/12637101/Decision-AP-Hot-News-Doctrine|url-status=live}} The case has been dismissed and both parties settled.{{cite web | url=http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf | title=Citizen Media Law Project | access-date=June 4, 2014 | archive-date=May 6, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240506222445/http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/2009-06-15-Order%20of%20Dismissal.pdf | url-status=live }}

===Hoax tweet and flash crash===

On April 23, 2013, hackers posted a tweet to AP's Twitter account about fictional attacks on the White House, falsely claiming that President Obama had been injured.{{Cite news |date=2013-04-23 |title=AP Twitter account hacked in fake 'White House blasts' post |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21508660 |access-date=2023-08-19 |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819121310/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21508660 |url-status=live }} The hoax caused a flash crash on the American stock markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly falling by 143 points.{{Cite news |last1=Moore |first1=Heidi |last2=Roberts |first2=Dan |date=2013-04-23 |title=AP Twitter hack causes panic on Wall Street and sends Dow plunging |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall |access-date=2023-08-19 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819121310/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/23/ap-tweet-hack-wall-street-freefall |url-status=live }}

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On May 13, 2013, the AP announced that telephone records for 20 of their reporters during a two-month period in 2012 had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department and described these acts as a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations.{{cite news |last=Sanchez |first=Raf |title=US Justice Department secretly seizes Associated Press phone records |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |work=The Telegraph |access-date=May 15, 2013 |location=London |date=May 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514070630/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-politics/10055318/US-Justice-Department-secretly-seizes-Associated-Press-phone-records.html |archive-date=May 14, 2013 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|title=US government secretly obtained Associated Press phone records|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|work=The Guardian|date=15 May 2013|access-date=17 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927231734/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/13/america-government-associated-press-phone-records|archive-date=27 September 2016|url-status=live}} The AP reported that the Justice Department would not say why it sought the records, but sources stated that the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia's office was conducting a criminal investigation into a May 7, 2012 AP story about a CIA operation that prevented a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on a commercial flight.{{cite news|last=Ingram|first=David|title=Associated Press says U.S. government seized journalists' phone records|url=http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|work=Reuters Canada|access-date=15 May 2013|date=2013-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529084725/http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE94C0ZW20130513|archive-date=29 May 2014|url-status=dead}} The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the AP, instead going to their phone providers, including Verizon Wireless.{{cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |title=Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters' Phone Records to Feds |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |work=Slate |access-date=20 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130519142639/http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/05/16/verizon_wireless_passed_ap_reporters_phone_records_to_the_feds.html |archive-date=19 May 2013 |url-status=live }} U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee that he recused himself from the leak investigations to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Holder said his Deputy Attorney General, James M. Cole, was in charge of the AP investigation and would have ordered the subpoenas.{{cite news |last= Curry |first= Tom |title= Holder addresses AP leaks investigation, announces IRS probe |url= http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |work= NBC News |access-date= 1 June 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041857/http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18253923-holder-addresses-ap-leaks-investigation-announces-irs-probe |archive-date= 8 June 2013 |url-status= live }}

On January 10, 2022, AP announced it would start selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their photographs in partnership with a company named Xooa, with the proceeds being used to fund their operations.{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Mitchell |title=The Associated Press is starting its own NFT marketplace for photojournalism |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding |date=January 10, 2022 |work=The Verge |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304220742/https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/10/22876993/associated-press-ap-nft-marketplace-xooa-blockchain-photo-journalism-funding }} One of the NFTs they promoted on Twitter on 24 February was an aerial shot depicting an overcrowded migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The tweet received negative backlash from users and other journalists, with AP being accused of profiting off of human suffering and the picture choice being "dystopian" and "in extremely poor taste". The tweet was subsequently deleted and the NFT, which was to be sold the next day, was pulled from market. Global director of media relations Lauren Easton apologized, saying "This was a poor choice of imagery for an NFT. It has not and will not be put up for auction [...] AP's NFT marketplace is a very early pilot program, and we are immediately reviewing our efforts".{{cite news |last1=Bissada |first1=Masoj |title=AP Cancels Sale Of NFT Of Migrants Floating In Overcrowded Boat In Mediterranean |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/24/ap-cancels-sale-of-nft-of-migrants-floating-in-overcrowded-boat-in-mediterranean/ |date=February 25, 2022 |work=Forbes |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303033300/https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/24/ap-cancels-sale-of-nft-of-migrants-floating-in-overcrowded-boat-in-mediterranean/ }}{{cite news |last1=Cantor |first1=Matthew |title='Profiting off suffering': AP cancels sale of migrant boat NFT amid backlash |url-status=live |access-date=March 4, 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/profiting-off-suffering-ap-cancels-sale-of-migrant-boat-nft-amid-backlash |date=February 24, 2022 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304004915/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/24/profiting-off-suffering-ap-cancels-sale-of-migrant-boat-nft-amid-backlash }} No further NFTs were announced or sold.

The AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes, including 36 for photography, since the award was established in 1917.{{Cite web|date=|title=Pulitzer Prizes won by the AP|url=https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes|access-date=January 15, 2025|publisher=Associated Press|archive-date=March 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210302113204/https://www.ap.org/about/awards-and-recognition/pulitzer-prizes|url-status=live}} In May 2020, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand of the AP were honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.{{cite news |title=AP's Kashmir photographers win Pulitzer for lockdown coverage |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html |publisher=Al Jazeera English |date=May 5, 2020 |access-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505073918/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/05/ap-kashmir-photographers-win-pulitzer-lockdown-coverage-200504200043152.html |url-status=live }} The choice caused controversy,{{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html|title=3 Indian photojournalists from Jammu and Kashmir win Pulitzer Prize|work=Hindustan Times|date=May 6, 2020|first=Ashiq|last=Hussain|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=May 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507104555/https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/3-indian-photojournalists-from-j-k-win-pulitzer/story-hN3xlFniHQ9jBH7hk2gUHK.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727|title=Kashmiri Pulitzer Prize winners caught in political debate|magazine=Outlook|date=May 5, 2020|access-date=May 6, 2020|via=Indo-Asian News Service (IANS)|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919100327/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/kashmiri-pulitzer-prize-winners-caught-in-political-debate/1824727|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Pulitzer Prize questions India's legitimacy over Kashmir|url=https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir|work=National Herald|date=May 5, 2020|access-date=May 6, 2020|archive-date=May 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507142140/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir|url-status=live}} because it was taken by some as questioning "India's legitimacy over Kashmir" as it had used the word "independence" in regard to revocation of Article 370.{{cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441|title=Pulitzer Prize questions India's legitimacy over Kashmir (Ld)|date=5 May 2020|magazine=Outlook|access-date=May 6, 2020|via=(IANS)|archive-date=May 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510020414/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/pulitzer-prize-questions-indias-legitimacy-over-kashmir-ld/1824441|url-status=live}}

The AP won an Oscar{{cite news |title=Frontline and AP Documentary '20 Days in Mariupol' Wins Academy Award® for 'Best Documentary Feature Film' |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-and-ap-documentary-20-days-in-mariupol-wins-academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature-film/ |publisher=PBS |date=March 10, 2024 |access-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313231229/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/frontline-and-ap-documentary-20-days-in-mariupol-wins-academy-award-for-best-documentary-feature-film/ |url-status=live }} in 2024 for 20 Days in Mariupol, a first-person account{{Cite news |last1=Bahr |first1=Lindsey |last2=Weber |first2=Christopher |date=March 11, 2024 |title='20 Days in Mariupol' wins best documentary Oscar, a first for AP and PBS' 'Frontline' |url=https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312132152/https://apnews.com/article/best-documentary-2024-oscars-61eadff6af5bb91d53737776c1a60ff8 |archive-date=March 12, 2024 |access-date=March 13, 2024 |publisher=The Associated Press}} of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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