Financial markets story to feature format suited to Web and mobile
The following advisory was sent today to editors at AP member news organizations:
A faster, new format for AP’s Major League Baseball game stories
For decades, AP reporters have chronicled every big play, every no-hitter and every controversy that erupts on the field during the hundreds of games that make up the Major League Baseball season.
Is it ISIL or ISIS in Iraq?
How best to refer to the al-Qaida splinter group leading Sunni militants in Iraq? ISIL or ISIS?
Bangkok bureau chief named Journalist of the Year in Asia
The Society of Publishers in Asia named The Associated Press’ Bangkok Bureau Chief Todd Pitman Journalist of the Year, in recognition of his work over the past 12 months, including gripping stories from Typhoon Haiyan and moving coverage of the travails of the Rohingya in Myanmar.
Piecing together the story of a girl, 10, left in an African forest
Her name is Hamamatou Harouna. She is 10 years old and unable to walk because she has polio.