Reporters across The Associated Press are outraged over the Justice Department’s sweeping seizure of staff phone records — and they say such an intrusion could chill their relationships with confidential sources. In conversations on Tuesday, several AP staffers in Washington described feelings of anger and frustration with the DOJ and with the Obama administration in general.
Attorney General Eric Holder is at the center of an uproar over the Justice Department’s decision to seize Associated Press telephone records, a move denounced by critics as a gross intrusion into the freedom of the press.
The TV news group calls the Justice Department action of secretly obtaining the AP phone records an “unprecedented invasion of privacy” and “a blatant violation of basic rights afforded by the First Amendment.”
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012.
Hackers today sent a tweet that said that there had been two explosions at the White House and President Barack Obama was injured. The attack on AP’s Twitter account and AP Mobile Twitter account was preceded by a phishing attempt on AP’s corporate network.
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It just became easier to access AP ENPS outside of the newsroom. The newsroom system now has an iPhone and iPad app that lets users monitor assignments and access breaking news, wires, stories, planning and rundowns while on the go.
The new version will allow users to create content for broadcast, online and social media all from the same ENPS desktop. It also features a new interface that gives users increased flexibility to customize the display of content.
The AP is testing the waters for building a consumer brand that doesn’t rely on newspaper intermediaries. This week’s hiring of Ken Detlet to lead the news organization’s digital ad strategy signals that the AP is looking to add value by creating custom opportunities for brands.
The Associated Press is is planning to provide full text, photo, video, interactive and social media coverage of Monday’s presidential inauguration, including a live blog and a Twitter feed.
The Chicago Tribune and six other newspapers owned by Tribune Co. are dropping the services of Associated Press, effective in early January. In addition to the flagship Tribune, other company-owned papers cutting ties with the 166-year-old global news provider are the Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Hartford Courant, Morning Call of Allentown, Pa., and Daily Press of Newport News, Va.
Breaking from two decades of tradition, this year’s election exit poll is set to include surveys of voters in 31 states, not all 50 as it has for the past five presidential elections, according to multiple people involved in the planning.
New Associated Press president and CEO Gary Pruitt pledged to continue close cooperation with member news organizations on news collection, open government efforts and generating online advertising revenue.
The archive contains video from more than 1.3 million global news and entertainment stories and will feature an “a la carte” pricing model, as well as a subscription service.
The Inergize Web CMS now fully integrates AP ENPS newsroom systems, making it easier for TV stations to distribute on-air content on websites, mobile devices and social platforms.
Former McClatchy chief executive Gary Pruitt joins the Associated Press today as its new president and he promises employees “to be honest and open.”
Eric Carvin, social media editor at the Associated Press: “Part of what we’re doing is sharing content in a curated way. It helps as news gathering; if we’re looking to find someone who has amateur video, we put out a call and a good chance we’ll hear back from people.”
WorldNow, the online technology, content, video and revenue-solutions company for local media, has integrated its technology with the Associated Press’ ENPS. During this year’s NAB, they will showcase their continued […]
The Associated Press said late Wednesday that Gary Pruitt, the chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Co., would be its next chief executive, succeeding Tom Curley, who is retiring after leading the news organization for nine years.
Outgoing Asoociated Press chief Tom Curley on the news organization getting paid for content: “To get the Internet companies to pay fair value, that was challenge No 1, and to some extent it still is. … We are at a point where we need to step up again and show folk that you just can’t run off with the entire wire.”
Tom Curley, president and CEO of The Associated Press since 2003, will step down this year, AP announced today. The search for a successor has been launched by the AP board of directors.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) – The Associated Press has opened its newest bureau here, becoming the first international news organization with a full-time presence to cover news from North Korea […]
The Associated Press, The New York Times Co., The Washington Post Co. and 26 other news organizations have launched NewsRight, a joint venture to track the unpaid use of stories.
Carvin will lead the AP’s ongoing social media efforts, coordinating with all national and international regions, verticals and formats.
As part of its multimillion-dollar upgrade, the AP is transforming its video business by switching its entire newsgathering, production and distribution systems to HD, with completion expected by the second quarter of 2012 in time for the London Olympics in July and the U.S. presidential elections in November.
The Associated Press has announced that APTN Direct, its breaking news video service, is to be extended beyond the confines of Satellite broadcasting and onto the Web. AP has teamed up with global streaming company Streamworks for the new service.
AP, Avid Battle For Newsroom System Share
That’s good news for broadcasters as the rivalry has yielded numerous new features and capabilities that facilitate the production of news not just for conventional broadcast, but also now for the Web, mobile devices and social media.
The Associated Press today announced agreements with the Korea Central News Agency, including one to open an AP news bureau in Pyongyang. Leaders of the two news organizations held discussions […]
Darren Long, a London-based media professional, has been named to the post of video integration manager for The Associated Press. Long’s appointment is the latest tied to AP’s multimillion-dollar upgrade of its newsgathering infrastructure to provide high-definition images to the broadcast and digital industries.
Darren Long, a London-based media professional, has been named to the post of video integration manager for The Associated Press, a new position. It’s the latest appointment tied to AP’s […]
David Westin, the former ABC News president, is tapped as president-CEO of the News Licensing Group, the new organization created by the Associated Press to license original news content to digital communications products and services.
The Associated Press will offer high-definition live television to its customers for the first time as part of its multiplatform coverage of the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate […]
A New Jersey video production company whose surveillance cameras captured the bombing of the military recruiter’s station in Times Square in 2008 is suing the Associated Press for selling the footage to other media outlets.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former CNN and Associated Press executive Jon Petrovich has died following a battle with cancer and diabetes. Petrovich, who would have turned 64 on Feb. 28, […]
