The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit news cooperative founded in 1846 that operates as the backbone of the world's information system. It has over 4,000 employees working in over 240 worldwide bureaus, providing news coverage in over 100 countries. AP supplies a steady stream of news around the clock to over 5,000 radio and television outlets as well as 550 international broadcasters and online customers. Its mission is to provide accurate, unbiased news coverage and media from around the world.

1. The Associated Press (AP)

2. Profile
• Founded in 1846.
• 243 bureaus in 97 countries.
• AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper
members.
• They elect a board of directors that directs the
cooperative.
• 24 hours a day
• 7 days a week

3. Figures
• 5,000 radio and television outlets taking AP
services
• 550 International broadcasters who receive
AP's global video news service, APTN, and
SNTV, a sports joint venture video service
• 4 languages in which AP sends news. The
report is translated into many more languages
by international subscribers

4. • 4,100 AP editorial, communications and
administrative employees worldwide.
• 3,000 of AP's worldwide staff are journalists.
• AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative
with more than 4,000 employees working in
more than 240 worldwide bureaus.

5. AP
• The Associated Press is the backbone of the
world's information system serving thousands
of daily newspaper, radio, television and
online customers with coverage in all media
and news in all formats.
• It is the largest and oldest news organization
in the world, serving as a source of news,
photos, graphics, audio and video.

6. • AP's mission is to providing distinctive news
services of the highest quality, reliability and
objectivity with reports that are accurate,
balanced and informed.
• AP supplies a steady stream of news around the
clock to its domestic members, international
subscribers and commercial customers.
• It has the industry's most sophisticated digital
photo network, a 24-hour continuously updated
online news service, a state-of-the-art television
news service and one of the largest radio
networks in the United States.

7. • It also has a commercial digital photo archive,
a photo library housing more than 10 million
images.
• The Associated Press is the essential global
news network, delivering fast, unbiased news
from every corner of the world to all media
platforms and formats.
• AP today is the largest and most trusted
source of independent news and information.
• On any given day, more than half the world's
population sees news from AP.

8. • AP provides breaking news coverage.
• AP’s news report reflects the international,
national, state, sports, business and
entertainment news and AP’s specialized
coverage is widely used at length on
newspaper section fronts across the United
States and around the world.

9. APTN
• Associated Press Television News — APTN — is
the world’s largest video news agency, and the
international video news arm of The Associated
Press.
• With over 80 bureaus worldwide, linked by a
network of global satellites, APTN provides the
world’s most reliable, and accurate breaking
video news, sports, and entertainment content to
over 500 broadcast newsrooms, Web, broadband
and mobile customers worldwide.

10. • News videos produced by Associated Press
Television News (APTN) are available through
an online feed or hosted platform for Web
sites and interactive services. Clips cover U.S.
and international news, politics,
entertainment, business and human-interest
stories, plus daily one-minute world news and
financial markets summaries.

11. AP Archive
• AP Archive is the moving image collection of
the Associated Press. With over 500,000
stories within our database on everything
from news to entertainment to sport to the
natural world, we can provide the pictures you
want in your production.
• AP Images is the world’s largest bank of
historical and recent photos
• AP Images provides instant access.

12. • adds new images every minute of every day
from every corner of the world
• Associated Press Multimedia Archive provides
over one million photographs dating back to
1826 and as current as a few hours ago, tens
of thousands of graphics, audio files dating
from the 1920's and news stories dating from
1997.