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AP editors’ note on Manning
Update: The following advisory was sent to AP member editors and other subscribers on Aug. 26, 2013, at 6:03 p.m.: The Associated Press will henceforth use Pvt. Chelsea E. Manning and female pronouns...
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Visit AP at ONA in Atlanta
The Associated Press is joining digital journalists from around the country at the 2013 Online News Association conference in Atlanta, which runs today through Oct. 19. Here’s a rundown of where you’ll...
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Backstory: Confirming information about secret US-Iran talks
AP’s Sunday story revealing that the U.S. and Iran had held secret talks before the announcement of a nuclear deal contained this paragraph: The AP was tipped to the first U.S.-Iranian meeting in March...
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Executive editor on why AP sought Newtown 911 tapes
The Associated Press sought the 911 calls made during the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed 20 children and...
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AP reacts to alteration of photo
The Associated Press has ended its ties with Narciso Contreras, a freelance photographer who has worked for AP in the Middle East, following his recent admission that he altered a photo that he took...
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Visit AP at SXSW Interactive
The Associated Press is joining thousands of digital and creative professionals from around the world converging at the 2014 SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, which runs March 7 through 11....
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Is it ISIL or ISIS in Iraq?
How best to refer to the al-Qaida splinter group leading Sunni militants in Iraq? ISIL or ISIS? In Arabic, the group is known as Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, or the Islamic State of Iraq...
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Vetting and coping with violent imagery
From his base in London, International Social Media Editor Fergus Bell leads The Associated Press’ efforts to source and verify user-generated content so that the AP can publish that content across...
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Advisory on Ebola coverage
In an advisory to editors at member and customer news organizations, The Associated Press outlined the careful steps it is taking in covering the Ebola story. EDITORS: We’re increasingly hearing...
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Why AP didn’t run the Charlie Hebdo cartoons
The attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris raised many questions about how news agencies handle controversial images. We answered some of them Wednesday in response to calls from reporters and bloggers....
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Automated earnings stories multiply
The Associated Press, working with Automated Insights and Zacks Investment Research, is now automatically generating more than 3,000 stories about U.S. corporate earnings each quarter, a tenfold...
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Setting the standards for journalists’ safety
The Associated Press has joined 25 other news organizations and journalism groups in endorsing an unprecedented set of safety standards designed to protect freelance reporters on dangerous assignments....
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Is it news or a spoiler?
A few weeks ago, when the Grammy Awards aired, we sent alerts on the top winners to our subscribers around the world, users of the AP mobile app and our social media followers. This brought us a fierce...
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AP at the Arab Media Summit
Several AP people took part in last week’s Arab Media Summit in Dubai, a large annual gathering of journalists and news executives from across the Arab world. This year there was substantial interest...
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