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Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

MAY 6, 2024

By DAVID BAUDER, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece on Monday for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of […]

AP wins Pulitzer for immigration photography; is finalist for education reporting 

MAY 6, 2024

The Associated Press was honored Monday for its photojournalism and U.S. education reporting, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography as seen in compelling, multi-country photojournalism showing migration from Central America to the United States, and being named a finalist in national reporting for groundbreaking coverage of students who fell out of normal schooling during […]

Associated Press images of migrants’ struggle are recognized with a Pulitzer Prize

MAY 6, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The images, captured by Associated Press photographers throughout 2023 and recognized Monday with a Pulitzer Prize, spotlight the humanity of an unprecedented global migration story often overlooked in a storm of statistics and political rhetoric. In the middle of the Central American jungle, a woman fleeing upheaval in her native Haiti […]

Terry Anderson, AP reporter abducted in Lebanon and held captive for years, has died at 76

APRIL 21, 2024

BY ANDREW MELDRUM AND CHRISTOPHER WEBER, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and torturous imprisonment by […]

AP to make select US election data available to financial institutions through Google Cloud 

APRIL 9, 2024

The Associated Press today announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud, making select historical data from U.S. elections available in Google Cloud’s BigQuery, giving financial institutions the ability to gain granular insights from AP’s gold-standard election results.  Through this collaboration, Google Cloud customers gain access to raw, machine-readable results from past presidential, congressional and gubernatorial […]

AP photographer’s early experiences in Washington helped prepare her to cover wartime diplomacy

MARCH 31, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jacquelyn Martin is a staff photojournalist with The Associated Press based in Washington. She covers politics at the White House and Congress and has traveled the world as a pool photographer covering every secretary of state since Hillary Clinton. She is also known for her self-driven enterprise feature packages for which she […]