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The Associated Press was founded in May 1846 by five New York City newspapers including The Sun, The New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express. Moses Yale Beach organized the initial meeting that created the entity known as the New York Associated Press.
The Associated Press adopted the teleprinter in 1914 to transmit news directly to printers over telegraph wires at a speed of 60 words per minute. This innovation allowed the agency to build a worldwide network of machines that could process information faster than any competitor.
Mark Kellogg became the first Associated Press news correspondent to be killed while reporting the news in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Joseph Morton was the only Allied correspondent to be executed by the Axis powers during World War II at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
The Associated Press has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established in 1917, including 36 for photography. The agency's election polling and results have become the gold standard for declaring winners in major political races.
The Associated Press engaged in a deal with the Nazi government to interchange press photos during the period in which the United States was at war with Nazi Germany. An estimated 40,000 photos were exchanged via a courier flying to Lisbon and back each day before the agency was kicked out of Nazi Germany when the United States entered World War II in December 1941.
The Associated Press launched its first dedicated iPhone application in June 2008 on stage at Apple's WWDC event. The app offered AP's own worldwide coverage of breaking news, sports, entertainment, politics and business, as well as content from more than 1,000 AP members and third-party sources.