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The Associated Press was founded in May 1846 by five daily New York newspapers to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican-American War. The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach, second publisher of The Sun.
The AP has earned 60 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917, including 36 for photography. In May 2020, AP photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
The AP launched its Wirephoto network in 1935, the world's first wire service for photographs. It transmitted news images over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken; the first photograph sent depicted an airplane crash in Morehouse, New York, on New Year's Day, 1935.
The AP filed suit in Associated Press v. Budowich on the 21st of February 2025, after the second Trump administration barred AP reporters from White House events because the AP refused to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America." Judge Trevor McFadden ruled on the 8th of April 2025 that the White House must lift the restrictions while the case proceeded.
AP VoteCast is an election data system introduced by the AP in 2018, developed together with NORC at the University of Chicago. It was designed to replace traditional exit polls and overcome the biases of legacy polling methods used in previous elections.
The AP exchanged photographs with Nazi Germany through a channel run by Waffen-SS photographer Helmut Laux and his Bureau Laux, using a daily courier between Lisbon and Stockholm as intermediaries. German historian Norman Domeier of the University of Vienna brought wider attention to the arrangement in 2017; an estimated 40,000 photographs were exchanged in this way.