EOTO 1 What I Learned: The Associated Press

The Associated Press

 1846

    The Associated Press is a non-profit American news agency based in New York City. It operates as a co-op association and produces news that is distributed to its 1,400 members. The Associated Press was formed in 1846 by several daily newspapers in New York. they did this to divide the expenses of delivering news of the Mex-American War. Moses Beach started the cooperative endeavor, he was then joined by The Sun, The New York Herald, The New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express. The New York Times became a member in September 1851.

    Known formerly as the New York Associated Press, the growing organization had harsh competition from the Western Associated Press founded in 1862. The AP was criticized for being a monopoly and for selling highly sought-after news for high prices. in 1892 Victor Lawson, of the Chicago Daily News, did an investigation and discovered that the AP had secret agreements with United Press for using and selling AP news content. The investigation led to the downfall of the AP and in the same year, the Western Associated Press was incorporated as the Associated Press. In 1900 there was an Illinois Supreme Court decision that the AP was a public utility or a public “necessity” which prohibited many of their practices. This is what encouraged the AP to move from Chicago to New York City, where laws were more favorable to co-op corporations.

    The structure of content owned by the Associated Press has opened many doors. Now, outlets such as Yahoo! and MSN are posting AP articles and rely on them as their top source for current news. This and the continued evolution that news stories require have continued to have a lasting impact on the public image as well as the role of the Associated Press. giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. A study by NewsWhip in 2017 uncovered that the content engaged with the most on Facebook more than any other publisher was that of the Associated Press.

 

Today, reporters within the Associated Press: 

• Write/publish 2,000 stories everyday

• Publish 1 million photos per year

• Release 70,000 videos per year

• Operate in 263 locations, more than 100 countries