Search results
- In 1848 six papers pooled their efforts to finance a telegraphic relay of foreign news brought by ships to Boston, the first U.S. port of call for westbound transatlantic ships. By 1856 the cooperative had taken the name New York Associated Press.
www.britannica.com/topic/Associated-Press
People also ask
How did the New York Associated Press get its name?
When did the Associated Press become a newspaper?
Who created the Associated Press of New York?
Who created the Western Associated Press?
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.
In May 1846, eager to get news of the Mexican-American War to his readers in the Northeast, Moses Yale Beach, publisher of the New York Sun, convinced the leaders of four other New York...
23 hours ago · In 1848 six papers pooled their efforts to finance a telegraphic relay of foreign news brought by ships to Boston, the first U.S. port of call for westbound transatlantic ships. By 1856 the cooperative had taken the name New York Associated Press.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In 1846, five New York City newspapers funded a pony express route through Alabama to bring news of the Mexican War north faster than the U.S. Post Office could deliver it. We were the first private sector organization in the U.S. to operate on a national scale.
- Early Years: The 1800s
- Dissolution and Rebirth: 1900 to Early 1920s
- Growth Under Kent Cooper: 1925–45
- Expansion and World War II: Late 1940s to 1970
- Improved Newsgathering Technology: 1970s to Early 1990s
- Further Growth and Change: 1995–99
- The 21st Century: 2000–05
- Principal Operating Units
- Principal Competitors
- Further Reading
The Associated Press was first established in 1848, when six of the most prominent daily newspapers in New York City decided to pool their resources to cut costs. Representatives of the six papers—the Journal of Commerce, the New York Sun, the Herald, the Courier and Enquirer, the Express, and the New York Tribune —were able to put aside their comp...
Controversy erupted near the close of the century and again Laffan of the Sun was involved. Laffan had set up his own agency, the Laffan News Bureau, following the collapse of UP. When AP discovered one of its client papers, the Chicago Inter Ocean, had used Laffan copy it sought to punish the Inter Ocean by cutting off its AP service. The Inter Oc...
Under Cooper AP grew into a gigantic international news machine. From the beginning, Cooper saw countless ways to improve the organization's methods of collecting and distributing information. One of his most important moves was to free AP from its obligations to import European news by way of news agencies there—ironically, these were the same arr...
With the onset of World War II came further breakthroughs in international news coverage, including the additions of transatlantic cable and radio-teletype circuits, leased land circuits in Europe, and an overseas radiophoto network. In 1946 AP launched its World Service and two years later, in 1948, Cooper retired. He was succeeded as general mana...
Technological progress continued to improve AP services during the 1970s. One of its breakthroughs during this period was the Laserphoto news picture system, developed jointly with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). The Laserphoto system allowed AP to transmit photographs of a much higher quality than previously possible...
In 1995 came the introduction of AP AdSEND, a digital advertising delivery service. For a small per-use fee, advertisers could upload copy and images into an AP database, which could then be downloaded by newspapers and other users. The system saved both time and money for advertisers, and enabled wider and easier distribution of advertising messag...
AP had come a long way by the dawn of the new millennium, from using the telegraph to transmit news to the advances of the electronic and digital age. By the year 2000 AP was owned by 1,500 member newspapers and over one billion people saw, heard, or read its news reports on any given day. Yet with such advances came problems, like when a simple ke...
AP Ad Services; AP Broadcast; AP Digital; AP ENPS; AP International; AP Photo Services; APTN (Associated Press Television News).
Agence France-Presse; Bell & Howell Company; Bloomberg L.P.; Dow Jones & Company, Inc.; Gannett Company, Inc.; Knight Ridder-Tribune News Service; New York Times Company; Reuters Group PLC; United Press International, Inc.
Alabiso, Vincent, "Digital Era Dawns," Editor & Publisher, March 2, 1996, p. 8P. Alabiso, Vincent, Kelly Smith Tunney, and Chuck Zoeller, Flash! The Associated Press Covers the World, New York: Associated Press in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1998. "AP in 'Healthiest Condition,' 1963—$44 Million News Year," Editor & Publisher, April 25, 1964, ...
Key Dates: 1848: Associated Press of New York is formed to share news-gathering costs of six newspapers. 1892: AP of Illinois is founded under Melville Stone. 1900: Court-ordered reorganization; New York is reestablished as headquarters. 1927: News Photo service begins. 1929: AP opens bureaus in France, England, and Germany.
Leading the way since 1846. We are committed to our news values and hold ourselves to the highest journalistic standards. Once welcomed as the voice of truth and fairness, and the public eyewitness to history, journalists today are targets, with attacks no longer limited to conflict zones.
