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The Associated Press (AP) [4] is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.Founded in 1846, it operates as cooperative, unincorporated association, and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters.
News agencies were created to provide newspapers with information about a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to newspapers, but with the passage of time the rapidly developing modern mediums such as radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.
AP Television News is the video division of the Associated Press. It provides many of the world's broadcasters with a round-the-clock continuous feed of news, sports, entertainment and feature video content. Associated Press Television News Ltd. is a UK corporation owned and controlled by the Associated Press.
Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics (also known as AP Stats) is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program. This course is equivalent to a one semester, non- calculus -based introductory college statistics course and is normally offered to sophomores , juniors ...
Formally named United Press Associations for incorporation and legal purposes but publicly known and identified as United Press or UP, the news agency was created by the 1907 uniting of three smaller news syndicates by the Midwest newspaper publisher E. W. Scripps. [2] [3] [4] It was headed by Hugh Baillie (1890–1966) from 1935 to 1955. At ...
A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and radio and television broadcasters. News agencies are known for their press releases .
The term also applies to rivalries between a country’s intelligence services and law enforcement agencies (e.g. the FBI and CIA in the United States [2]), the emergency services of a jurisdiction (e.g. the NYPD and FDNY in New York City [3]), or separate services in the same field (e.g. the LAPD and LASD in Los Angeles County, California [4]).
The news agency called Associated Press of India (API) was formed in British India in 1905 and was acquired by Reuters in 1915. [6] In the 1940s, Reuters altered its constitution enabling co-partnership of news agencies in British Dominions, and the Associated Press of India became an independent company in 1946, though with significant backing by Reuters.