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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 newspaper publishers pooling resources, now reaches nearly 4 billion people daily and has chronicled the American republic's pivotal moments for 250 years.
- AP correspondent Edward Kennedy scored a major scoop reporting Germany's surrender to Allied forces in France on May 7, 1945, but military censors imposed a 36-hour embargo to allow Russian allies time to stage a second surrender ceremony.
- During the 2000 presidential election, the AP refused to call Florida for Democrat Al Gore after TV networks prematurely declared victory, with one county initially reported to have a 42,000-vote margin when the actual margin was 4,200.
- On April 4, 1968, AP reporter Kathryn Johnson arrived at the King family home in Atlanta after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, gaining access while a New York Times reporter was turned away.
- Iconic AP photographs define historical memory: Joe Rosenthal'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 after 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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