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The Associated Press was founded in May 1846 when five daily newspapers in New York City gathered to form a new organization. Moses Yale Beach organized this venture alongside the New York Herald, the New York Courier and Enquirer, The Journal of Commerce, and the New York Evening Express.
An investigation completed in 1892 by Victor Lawson revealed a secret agreement between principals of the New York Associated Press and United Press to share news and split profits from reselling it. These revelations led to the demise of the New York Associated Press and prompted the Western Associated Press to be incorporated in Illinois as the Associated Press in December 1892.
In 1914, the Associated Press adopted teletype for its New York service which transmitted directly to printers over telegraph wires at speeds up to 60 words per minute. By 1935, the agency launched Wirephoto, the world's first wire service for photographs with the first image transferred depicting an airplane crash in Morehouse, New York on New Year's Day 1935.
Since the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917, the Associated Press has earned 59 awards including thirty-six honors for photography. In May 2020, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
The organization won an Academy Award in 2024 for the documentary film 20 Days in Mariupol which covered the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This marked the first time the Associated Press had ever received an Oscar for documentary filmmaking.