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2001 - Present
Essential 21st Century Leadership |
| 2001 |
On September 11, AP
covers the al-Qaida terrorist attacks on the U.S. mainland, providing
news of simultaneous catastrophes in cities that were home to its
New York headquarters and its largest bureau in Washington, D.C. All
AP news staff in both cities played a role in covering the disasters. |
| 2002 |
In October, AP President and CEO Tom Curley announces the “e-AP”
initiative to transform the company into a global news network through
an interactive, multimedia platform that allows its members to tailor
content to their own needs.
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| 2004 |
In May, AP President and CEO Tom Curley calls upon all news media
in the U.S. to renew their dedication to and demand for freedom of
information. In the Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture in Riverside, California,
Curley states, “Open government is the personal interest and
constitutional right of every citizen. But we of the fourth estate
have by far the greatest means and incentive to speak and fight for
it.”
AP debuts its first blog at the political conventions in Boston and
New York, and features Pulitzer Prize-winning political reporter Walter
R. Mears, who has covered political conventions since 1964.
In July, AP moves from 50 Rockefeller Plaza, its home for 66 years,
to 450 West 33rd Street. The move allows AP to consolidate all news
and management operations under one roof and to build a 21st century
newsroom for AP’s television, radio, text, image, and multimedia
services. |
| 2005 |
AP announces an online video news network for newspaper, television,
and radio Web sites in the United States. MSN teams up with AP in
the endeavor.
AP launches “asap,” a service to younger audiences
delivering online and print content to members and subscribers.
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| 2006 |
AP Television News opens a full-time bureau in Pyongyang, North
Korea, after years of negotiations with the state broadcaster, Korean
Radio and Television, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Online Video Network (OVN) service is established, to provide
news video to AP member and customer websites. |
| 2007 |
In February, the AP and NowPublic (NP) agree to explore ways to
involve NP’s worldwide network of citizen journalists in AP’s
breaking news coverage.
Photographer Oded Balilty wins The Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his picture of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces in the West Bank. It’s the 49th Pulitzer for the world's oldest and largest news cooperative and the 30th awarded for AP Photos.
A team of former and current Associated Press journalists reveals the compelling stories behind some of history's biggest stories in BREAKING NEWS, the first book about the news cooperative in more than 60 years.
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| 2008 |
AP launches the Mobile News Network, a multimedia news portal targeted at wireless users who want access anytime and anywhere to international, national and local news content from the cooperative and its members. Optimized for use on smartphones including BlackBerrys and Apple's iPhone, the MNN provides mobile users with a single point of access to news from hundreds of local publishers. Users can customize features for favorite sections and locations, view video and photo galleries, search a 30-day archive of news stories, and share content with friends. The MNN is the first example of AP's Digital Cooperative, a program designed to find new digital outlets for the news and information produced by AP members.
Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein is freed by U.S. military, more than two years after he was detained by U.S. Marines on suspicion of links to insurgents. The release came after two Iraqi judicial amnesty committees ruled that there would be no trial on any of the accusations against him. The U.S. military said it no longer deemed Hussein a threat. Hussein denies U.S. military accusations that he had improper contacts with Iraqi insurgents in the areas where he was living. He says he was doing the normal work of a photographer in a war zone. His detention drew protests from rights groups and press freedom advocates.
AP's poltical team, working with bureau chiefs in each state, declare Barack Obama the winner of the presidency at exactly 11p.m. ET, when the polls closed in five states. The AP at that moment had Obama with 329 electoral votes, well in excess of the 270 needed to win. The commercial and cable networks all had Obama with fewer than 300 electoral votes when they joined the AP in declaring him the national's 44th president. AP's comprehensive election night results also include the news agency's first continuous online live video stream.
AP begins a review of its membership structure to address members’ rapidly changing needs and to assure that it remains the world’s leading news organization. AP launches a study of the cooperative structure and of service options, with plans to report back to the Board of Directors by AP’s annual meeting in April of 2009 with suggestions on how it might be reorganized. The AP Board of Directors oversees and approves all changes regarding structure, pricing and governance of the cooperative |
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