AP’s decade-long push for court transparency key to current Cosby trial
On Sept. 25, 2018, Bill Cosby was led away from a Pennsylvania courthouse in handcuffs, sentenced to three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated estate.
The challenge of brevity in the digital age
News in the digital age comes in short -- often very short -- bursts, straight to our mobile phones, smart watches, tablets and computer screens. Sometimes these short takes are all an audience will read, not the longer story that follows. That’s why we need to get them right.
National AP climate change analysis sparks local reports
An AP analysis of 30 years of temperature change data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been echoed and localized by dozens of member newspapers.
How and when we report on suicides
AP policy on reporting suicides, spelled out in the AP Stylebook, is “to not go into detail on the methods used.” There has been a robust discussion in our newsrooms about what this means -- how far do we go in discussing methods of suicide by celebrities? Are we depriving readers of essential information on a story if we are too opaque?
Scrambling to secure video exclusives of traveling North Korean official
Ahead of an announcement by President Donald Trump that a top North Korean official would travel to the U.S. for talks about an upcoming summit between the two countries, a sharp-eyed AP journalist spotted Kim Yong Chol en route and set off a worldwide scramble.
