Associated Press stylebook 2014

Since 1846, The Associated Press has been on the scene wherever news is breaking. AP is a not-for-profit newsgathering cooperative whose content - across subjects, formats and continents - is seen by half of the world's population every day. Our unmatched expertise in global newsgathering, distribution and service makes AP the most trusted, definitive source for news. The AP's mission is to get it first but first get it right, and to be the first choice for news, by providing the fastest, most accurate reporting from every corner of the globe across all media types and platforms. Headquartered in New York, AP delivers coverage of news, sports, business, weather, entertainment, politics, lifestyles and technology in text, audio, video, graphics, photos and interactives. AP is also a leader in developing and marketing innovative newsroom technology and newsgathering services. AP does what it takes to get the story, even in the world's most dangerous and challenging places. Our global network of journalists work in more than 280 locations in uo countries worldv.ride. Journalists staff every statehouse in the United States, providing unrivaled access to more sources of information and newsmakers. The extensive network that is the AP grew from a single notion more than a century and a half ago: that cooperation can help authoritative news reach readers faster. In late 1846, hostilities began in what would become the Mexican War. American newspapers, most based in the Northeast at the time, faced huge obstacles in reporting the conflict. War reports for the New York Sun were sent from Mexico to Mobile, Alabama, by boat, rushed by special pony express to Montgomery and then 700 miles by U.S. Mail stagecoach to the southern terminus of the newly invented - and costly - telegraph near Richmond, Virginia. That express gave the Sun an edge of 24 hours or more on papers using regular mail. But Moses Yale Beach, the Sun's publisher, relinquished that advantage by inviting other New York publishers to join a cooperative venture. Five newspapers signed on: the Sun, the Journal of Commerce, the Courier and Enquirer, the Herald and the Express. It was the beginning of the AP. AP assumed its mcxlem legal form in i900 when it incorporated as a not-forprofit cooperative under the Membership Corporation Law of New York state. Today, the AP membership elects the board of directors, the cooperative's governing body. AP staffers are governed by a comprehensive ethics statement, available for viev.ring at http://www.ap.org/company/news-values. More than 165 years since its inception, AP remains the undisputed source for news, delivering fast, unbiased news globally to all media platforms and formats.