The Associated Press Workflow Solutions team is introducing the next generation of story-centric news production solutions at the NAB Show in Las Vegas (April 14-17). AP Storytelling follows the story […]
The Associated Press on Thursday said it reached a two-year deal with OpenAI, the parent company to ChatGPT, to share access to select news content and technology. The deal marks one of the first official news-sharing agreements made between a major U.S. news company and an artificial intelligence firm.
Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK, produced by George Stephanopoulos Productions and ABC News Studios, premieres on Hulu Thursday, April 27.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will get a $145,000 settlement following a pair of lawsuits filed after an FBI agent posed as a reporter […]
IBC’s first in-person event since 2019 may have fewer days and attendees than at its high-water mark, but vendors are packing their schedules with meetings and say they’re excited to be doing business in person again.
NEW YORK (AP) — Marjorie Miller, vice president and global enterprise editor at The Associated Press, has been named as the new administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Miller spent 27 […]
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Television and its mobile iterations bore witness to a tumultuous year of presidential politics, the pandemic and racial reckoning, including the agonizing scene of a man begging police for his life that galvanized Black Lives Matter protests.
The wire service has refused to accept limitations that organizers of the show have placed on images from the venue that it believes affects its ability to accurately report on the event. The restrictions prevent AP from providing coverage of the ceremony “to its standards,” according to an advisory it sent to members. The AP will not write about, take images of or shoot video of the show, which airs Wednesday evening on ABC.
As it does in every election, AP will collect and verify U.S. election returns in every county, parish, city and town across the country, covering races down to the legislative level in every state. This year AP will declare winners in 7,000 contests, doing the work so that the public knows as soon as possible who wins not only the White House, but control of Congress and every state legislature. Thousands of broadcasters, newspapers, digital outlets, and others will rely on AP’s results.
Tech To Court Next-Gen At NewsTECHForum
AP’s Andy Carvin, Quartz’s John Keefe, The E.W. Scripps Co.’s Rob McCracken and GateHouse Media’s Penny Riordan will look at how social platforms, bots and voice-enabled technologies are building audience engagement and loyalty among cord-cutting millennials at TVNewsCheck’s sixth annual NewsTECH Forum on Dec. 11-12.
A new tool from the Associated Press will now allow users of its service to pull in topical and verified content shared by users on social media such as photos and videos around breaking news. Using the web interface provided by social media platform manager SAM (AP owns a stake in SAM and has been using it since 2015), AP Social Newswire lets AP clients look through social content that is being curated and vetted by AP editors in real-time.
Buzbee is an Associated Press veteran who most recently headed its Washington D.C. bureau and has served as deputy managing editor in New York, Middle East regional editor in Cairo among other roles in her time with the organization since 1988. She succeeds Kathleen Carroll, who is stepping down after 14 years in the role.
At the beginning of 2016, The Associated Press said the number of live videos it produced had increased by 25% in 2015 compared to the previous year, Livestreaming can give audiences a front row seat for watching stories develop over a longer period of time, not just when news breaks. AP is now producing around 600 lives per month, so which of its videos are most popular with publishers?
It doesn’t have to be expensive, for one thing: the Associated Press has used $400 cameras and partnered with outside specialists like Ryot for its own 20 video projects. And a very important takeaway is that most events don’t actually work for VR. How does one know? “The rule of thumb is ‘would you look around you in a certain situation?’ if the answer is yes, then maybe there is an opportunity to create a VR experience,” says AP’s Paul Cheung.
The AP, Gannett and Vice are suing the FBI to learn how the government hacked an iPhone in its San Bernardino massacre investigation, specifically who it turned to for the solution and how much it spent. Eric Tucker reports on the lawsuit looking to get to the bottom of the “mysterious transaction.”
The Associated Press is putting together a digital ad agency for its subscribers with sponsored content that can run against its own content inventory. It’s a move to help shore up its customer base, which has been slowly dropping AP subscriptions. AP will be working with Nativo on the back end, and the organization describes the effort as “not so much an ad agency shop as a photography and video shop.”
The longtime Associated Press manager will succeed the now-retired Lee Perryman as head of the multiplatform news production system. Also given new positions are Andy Wormser and Jason Smith.
The Associated Press will bring data journalism to a wider range of news organizations with the help of a $400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, the AP said today. AP will use the funds to bring on more data journalists and increase its distribution of localized data sets.
Michael Boord, director of mobile products at The Associated Press, describes the organization’s design approach to the Apple Watch. He says breaking news notifications will be joined by top story glances, and its functionality includes force touch to save stories for later and hand-off functionality.
In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey, the president and CEO of the news cooperative, Gary Pruitt, demanded assurances that the FBI will never again impersonate a member of the news media, following revelations that an agent in Seattle portrayed himself as an AP journalist during a criminal investigation.
AP Sees Expanded Coverage, Growth Ahead
Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, says he’s presiding over a healthier, debt-free AP that is targeting revenue growth this year and is reinvesting its profits in the company. Growing markets in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East are helping, as is increased demand for video.
SEATTLE (AP) — The FBI confirmed Tuesday it faked an Associated Press story to catch a bomb threat suspect in 2007, but now says it did not spoof a Seattle […]
The Associated Press announced Monday that the majority of U.S. corporate earnings stories for its business news report will be produced using automation technology.
The Associated Press will showcase its mobile version of AP ENPS, its multiplatform news production system, at the NAB Show in Las Vegas next week. Users can upload photos and video into AP ENPS along with stories using a smartphone, tablet or other mobile device and send to digital production or on-air broadcast.
The Associated Press is planning to introduce sponsored articles into the stream of news stories on its mobile apps and hosted websites. The rollout is expected in early 2014, with potential sponsorship deals centered around major events the AP is planning to cover, such as the Super Bowl, the Winter Olympics and the Academy Awards.
Last week, a Senate panel voted to approve a compromise that defined a journalist, clearing the way for the proposed media shield law to be voted on by the full Senate. But journalists around the country had plenty to say about a law that would exclude some bloggers.
The newsgathering cooperative is using LiveU’s bonded cellular technology to provide live, multi-camera feeds for a fuller picture of breaking news as it unfolds. It’s also partnering with Swedish startup Bambuser to give citizens with the ability to be video eyewitnesses on behalf of the Associated Press and stream video via smartphones.
The new, more visually oriented iteration uses a photo tile layout, with larger tiles spotlighting top stories. Tiles can also be dedicated to individual sponsors and can click through to outside URLs or, potentially, native advertising.
The agreement will boost the AP’s ability to acquire and distribute video collected by people who have witnessed news events. As part of the deal, Sandy MacIntyre, AP’s director of global video news, will join Bambuser’s board as a director. The deal caps a three-year relationship between the news agency and Bambuser.
Gary Pruitt, president-CEO of the Associated Press, speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday laid out five steps he said were imperative to help guarantee press freedom.
News Orgs Refuse Off-Record Meet With AG
The New York Times and the Associated Press have refused to attend a meeting this week with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss guidelines for journalists in leak investigations. Jill Abramson, the Times‘ executive editor, cited the Justice Department’s request that the discussion be kept off the record as a reason for not attending.
Will AP, Fox News Be The End Of Eric Holder?
President Obama told the country that he didn’t want to criminalize reporting, and that he was going to ask his Justice Department to make sure not to do that anymore. To that end he is going to convene a panel, and urge the passage of a shield law. The question is, what will he do about Attorney General Eric Holder?
Pew: U.S. Not Very Interested In AP Scandal
Only about 16% of the U.S. population is keeping a close eye on the DOJ’s seizure of AP phone records, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Of those who are following the story closely, 55% disapprove of the DOJ’s actions.
The Justice Department’s seizure of phone records for journalists at the Associated Press is hurting the agency’s ability to gather news, the wire service’s President Gary Pruitt said on Sunday.
The Obama administration has proven to be even tougher than President George W. Bush on prosecuting national security leaks. The seizure of Associated Press phone records this week is just the latest example.
