Lifetime achievement award for AP White House photographer
AP senior photographer J. Scott Applewhite received the White House News Photographers Association’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual “Eyes of History” awards gala in Washington on Saturday night.
Honoring courage in the name of fallen AP photographer
The 2017 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the AP photojournalist who was killed reporting in Afghanistan in 2014, has been awarded to Stephanie Sinclair, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers gender and human rights issues around the world.
A multiformat view of U.S. political scene
A staff memo by Chris Sullivan, editor of AP's national reporting team, describes how AP’s presence across the country allowed staffers in all formats to provide a “unique window” into the U.S. political climate ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration:
AP photographer: 'I composed myself enough to shoot pictures'
When a gunman attacked Russia’s ambassador to Turkey at a photo exhibit in Ankara Monday, AP photographer Burhan Ozbilici didn’t put down his camera. Instead, he captured images of the gunman that immediately went viral.
For photographers on campaign trail, a search for ‘unscripted moments’ and access to candidates
Ahead of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Virginia, presidential campaign photography was the issue in question.
