Action, uproar after AP exposes mistreatment of migrant kids
In a memo to staff, Managing Editor Brian Carovillano explained how members of AP’s award-winning immigration beat team used deep source work to reveal reports of neglected migrant children at a remote Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas:
Why we published a border deaths photo
AP decided on Tuesday to publish a photo of the bodies of a man and his 23-month-old daughter discovered Monday on the bank of the Rio Grande near Matamoros, Mexico, across the river from Brownsville, Texas.
AP journalists accept Pulitzer Prize for Yemen coverage
At a luncheon at Columbia University in New York on Tuesday, the AP journalists who documented torture, corruption and starvation in Yemen’s civil war accepted a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
A Pulitzer for 'stories the world heard from no other source'
As noted by the judges, the Pulitzer Prize won today by AP was: “For a revelatory yearlong series detailing the atrocities of the war in Yemen, including theft of food aid, deployment of child soldiers and torture of prisoners.”
Matt Chandler named news director for Latin America
Vice President for International News Ian Phillips today announced a key appointment, sending this memo to staff: