2006-08-28 16:21:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Its beginnings trace to 1848, when six New York City newspapers pooled their efforts to finance a telegraphic relay of foreign news brought by ships to Boston. In 1892 the modern AP was set up under the laws of Illinois; several years later it moved to New York. Its restrictive controls on new memberships were ended with federal antitrust prosecution in the 1940s. AP was the first agency to devote a news wire to sports coverage (1946), and it distributes business news through a partnership with Dow Jones & Co., Inc. More than 15,000 organizations worldwide obtain news, photographs, and illustrations from the agency. The AP Stylebook has become a standard in many journalistic organizations.
2006-08-29 02:23:36 · answer #1 · answered by srihari_reddy_s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The AP does in fact have its own reporters, but by far most of the news it reports comes from news collected by other media outlets, such as your local newspaper, which contractually agrees to allow AP to disseminate the stories it chooses. The editors of AP-member newspapers (or radio and TV stations) choose which AP stories to run in their own papers or broadcasts.
2006-08-28 16:32:02 · answer #2 · answered by davidepeden 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a world wide news gathering organization that disseminates news stories to newspapers , TV and radio stations.
2006-08-28 16:25:55 · answer #3 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the asociated press gathers, diferent news feed from different news reoprters, stationed acros the world its al over the world in different ports, agencies, one of the largest for feding your newspapers around the world!
2006-08-28 16:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
many independent journalist
2006-08-28 16:26:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋