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Inverted pyramid vs. feature or narrative

The AP has a separate dept. for news features and narratives. Led by such greats as Bruce DeSilva, the department has cranked out good features and narratives for papers that want them for many years.

The article wants us to believe that such a straight-forward style is novelty or endangered species. Neither is the case.

As a journalist who assists in editing my paper's wire (AP only) content, I would say that the majority of ap articles and alerts are still written as news articles (inverted pyramid and related structures like hourglass) in the ap's own style. A lot of AP content is borrowed from smaller daily papers and other news outlets as part of the AP's service agreement with these organizations. The AP then has a limited control of exactley what style of story it picks up (of course editing to AP style and satisfaction is always completed before the work is sent to other outlets).

So, the segment in this article mentioning a switch is needless as well as nonfactual. The majority of the AP subscribers would have a much greater need for journalism in strict style anyway. Just contact a news collecter like Yahoo or Google and see what kinds of stories they carry.

I think we need to see proof of this switch and impact of the bottom line. Please remove until such evidence is presented.

-- newsn —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.68.20.228 (talk • contribs) 20:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Mideast Conflict

Like many news outlets, it would be a good thing to write about AP's coverage of the Mideast conflict. I was looking at a few articles, and all I could find was Israel says this or Israel does that, which might hint at the fact that AP gets its information from official Israeli government sources. ADM (talk) 08:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shepard Fairey section

Muddled. AP countersued S. Fairey, the article states, after Fairey sued AP over ...what?....{Quoting:"Fairey had sued the not-for-profit news cooperative the previous month over his artwork, titled "Obama Hope" and "Obama Progress," arguing that he didn't violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image."} Is this factual? It seems that one would not sue AP and argue that your work didn't violate copyright law, unless you had been sued initially over your work violating copyright law. Otherwise there wouldn't be a reason to sue in the first place. Would there be? So what is the story here? Did AP sue Fairey first, and then he countersued, and then AP countersued him again? If AP sued first, then let's say so. I don't have a dog in this fight, but it would be nice to make sense of the issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Renglish (talk • contribs) 23:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hope I am doing this correctly.. The AP didn't sue Fairey first. They tried to leverage licensing fees from him and threatened to sue... so He, along with Standford University, filed a pre-emptive lawsuit seeking what is called a declaratory judgement.

He later admitted to his deceit.http://www.thevine.com.au/news/articles/shepard-fairey-admits-lie.aspx Serialjoepsycho (talk) 05:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural References

The Associated Press helped to establish the fame of the fictional town of Hadleyburg in Mark Twain's short story "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg." Psalm 119:105 (talk) 04:43, 15 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Kids

We the Kids needs to be good in the class rooms and be repectful to other treachers so kids of Americans be nice and repectful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.211.4.253 (talk) 19:04, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why Aren't The Names And Positions Of The People On The Board Of Directors Included In The Article?

Why is the information about the Board Of Directors and who the individuals are here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.0.225.130 (talk) 01:01, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Change Suggested regarding competition..

I would like to suggest that the following paragraph be changed as I think that as written it is no longer true. Although the AP is still the largest news service in the USA , competitors like AHN have emerged. the AP's suit against AHN on Hot News requires the element of competition and AP even referred to AHN as a competitor.


The economic demise of the long-time rival of the Associated Press, United Press International, as a major American competitor in 1993 left the AP as the only nationally-oriented news service based in the United States. Other English-language news services, such as Reuters and the English language service of Agence France-Presse, are based outside the United States.

Tomtasget (talk) 16:23, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Editorial control

To what extent, if any, is there any central editorial board which monitors or shapes the point of view expressed in AP articles? For example is the Media Matters post titled 'AP falsely claimed Obama has "delivered no policy speeches" on campaign trail' inherently misleading due to the lack of central editorial control? I believe so, but stand ready to be corrected., see my comment on the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. Fred Talk 17:29, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Non-profit?

I see the AP had net income -- aka profit after tax -- of $8.8m in 2009.

So is it strictly accurate to call it a non-profit organization? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.161.250 (talk) 05:40, 10 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I don't think that the AP really behaves like a non-profit.. This may be it's "legal" business structure but the AP very often acts in ways that is directly competitive to its "members" and in fact its members don't provide the majority of news any longer. Tomtasget (talk) 13:14, 13 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thompson Reuters

In the last paragraph of the top section, it states that "[o]ther English-language news services, such as Reuters [...] are based outside the United States." Is this still true? Reuters was British until it was acquired by Thompson. Now, Thompson Reuters operates out of New York City.  Elunah であります  Rawr!  13:55, 21 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Christopher Newton

This article in The New York Times presents Newton's side of the story, which is at odds with the AP's version of events. It should be included. 71.22.40.31 (talk) 08:48, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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