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78-570: Every November four to seven individuals or publications are honored at a banquet in New York City and given an award. The ceremony also honors the winner of the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for "lifelong work to advance press freedom". Past hosts have included crime correspondent and former hostage Terry A. Anderson , Amanpour host Christiane Amanpour , and NBC Nightly News anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw . In 1998,

156-609: A recruiter for the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. After his discharge he enrolled at Iowa State University , graduating in 1974 with dual degrees: one in journalism and mass communication, the other in political science . During his studies at Iowa State, he was employed as a part time photographer and reporter at the KRNT radio and television station in Des Moines. He then joined

234-584: A "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into news-gathering operations. The AP reported that the Justice Department would not say why it sought the records, but sources stated that the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia 's office was conducting a criminal investigation into a May 7, 2012 AP story about a CIA operation that prevented a terrorist plot to detonate an explosive device on

312-588: A $ 100,000 endowment to honor and support people who do charitable and community service projects in Appalachia . Lawrence Jenco was a former Catholic Relief Services director in Beirut who also was kidnapped. The two men met in jail. Jenco, who died in 1996, wrote his memoirs, Bound to Forgive , for which Anderson wrote the preface. In December 2003 Anderson announced his candidacy on the Democratic ticket to represent

390-482: A Russian Forbes journalist shot to death in 2004 by unknown attackers; and to Atwar Bahjat , an Iraqi journalist for Al Arabiya who was abducted and murdered in February 2006. A number of other laureates had been threatened or attacked in the year preceding their award, such as Guatemalan journalist Byron Barrera (1991), whose wife was murdered in an attack on their car, and Željko Kopanja (2000), who lost his legs in

468-765: A basic reference to American English grammar, punctuation, and principles of reporting, including many definitions and rules for usage as well as styles for capitalization , abbreviation , spelling , and numerals. The first publicly available edition of the book was published in 1953. The first modern edition was published in August 1977 by Lorenz Press . Afterwards, various paperback editions were published by different publishers, including, among others, Turtleback Books, Penguin 's Laurel Press, Pearson 's Addison-Wesley , and Hachette 's Perseus Books and Basic Books . Recent editions are released in several formats, including paperback and flat-lying spiral-bound editions, as well as

546-452: A best selling memoir of his experience as a hostage, titled Den of Lions . He filed suit against the Iranian government for his captivity, and, on March 24, 2000, was awarded a $ 324 million settlement from frozen Iranian assets by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson based upon a 1996 anti-terrorism law which allows United States citizens, who are victims of terrorist acts abroad,

624-457: A car bomb. Other laureates have been killed after their awards, such as Irish crime reporter Veronica Guerin (1995), awarded a year before her murder, and Palestinian cameraman Mazen Dana (1991), awarded two years before being fatally shot by a US soldier in Iraq. Eritrean journalist Fesshaye Yohannes (2002) died while still imprisoned; owing to conflicting reports and the secrecy of his confinement,

702-512: A commercial flight. The DOJ did not direct subpoenas to the AP, instead going to their phone providers, including Verizon Wireless . U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified under oath in front of the House Judiciary Committee that he recused himself from the leak investigations to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. Holder said his Deputy Attorney General, James M. Cole ,

780-535: A company named Xooa, with the proceeds being used to fund their operations. One of the NFTs they promoted on Twitter on 24 February was an aerial shot depicting an overcrowded migrant boat in the Mediterranean Sea . The tweet received negative backlash from users and other journalists, with AP being accused of profiting off of human suffering and the picture choice being "dystopian" and "in extremely poor taste". The tweet

858-459: A contentious "quasi-property" right to facts. The AP complaint asserted that AHN reporters had copied facts from AP news reports without permission and without paying a syndication fee. After AHN moved to dismiss all but the copyright claims set forth by the AP, a majority of the lawsuit was dismissed. The case has been dismissed and both parties settled. On April 23, 2013, hackers posted a tweet to AP's Twitter account about fictional attacks on

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936-664: A digital e-book edition and an online subscription version. Additionally, the AP Stylebook also provides English grammar recommendations through social media, including Twitter , Facebook , Pinterest , and Instagram . In 1994, Tina Susman was on her fourth trip to Somalia , reporting for the AP. She was reporting on U.S. peacekeeping troops leaving the country. Somali rebels outnumbered her bodyguards in Mogadishu , dragged her from her car in broad daylight, and held her for 20 days. She told The Quill that she believes being

1014-574: A dignity of the individual, seems to have been halted for a good period of time by the growth of totalitarian societies, and those are breaking up now. Certainly the totalitarian instinct has not gone away. There are a great many wars going on and struggles by peoples, but that ice jam, that blockage that was representative of the domination of a third of the world by communism , is gone. I think that's reason for great optimism. Anderson died at his home in Greenwood Lake, New York , on April 21, 2024, at

1092-638: A group of All-American players. In 1994, London-based Associated Press Television (APTV) was founded to provide agency news material to television broadcasters. In 1998, the AP purchased Worldwide Television News (WTN) from the ABC News division of The Walt Disney Company , Nine Network Australia and ITN London. The AP publishes 70,000 videos and 6,000 hours of live video per year, as of 2016 . The agency also provides seven simultaneous live video channels, AP Direct for broadcasters, and six live channels on AP Live Choice for broadcasters and digital publishers. The AP

1170-406: A licensing dispute. A 2017 study by NewsWhip revealed that AP content was more engaged with on Facebook than content from any individual English-language publisher. In June 2024, Axios reported that the AP would be launching a nonprofit with the goal of expanding state and local news, hoping to raise $ 100 million. The AP is governed by an elected board of directors . Since April 2022,

1248-518: A live stream of Northern Gaza from the town of Sderot as part of a ban on Al Jazeera Media in Israel which had received footage from the broadcast. The move was condemned by multiple journalism organizations, Israeli opposition politicians, and US government officials. In a press briefing, the spokesperson for the National Security Council commented on the seizure, saying "The White House and

1326-489: A member of the news media. In June 2008, the AP sent numerous DMCA take-down demands and threatened legal action against several blogs . The AP contended that the internet blogs were violating the AP's copyright by linking to AP material and using headlines and short summaries in those links. Many bloggers and experts noted that the use of the AP news fell squarely under commonly accepted internet practices and within fair-use standards. Others noted and demonstrated that

1404-726: A non-profit that supports press freedom around the globe. In 2014, he moved to Hidden Village in Gainesville, Florida , to teach a course in international journalism at the University of Florida . With some of his settlement, Anderson, Marcia Landau and actress Kieu Chinh founded the Vietnam Children's Fund , which has built more than 50 schools in Vietnam. Anderson also created the Father Lawrence Jenco Foundation with

1482-512: A statement on May 16, stating that he "had no indication Hamas was in the building" and called on the Israeli government to provide the evidence. He said that "the world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today." On 17 May, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said he had not seen any evidence that Hamas operated from the building housing the AP and Al Jazeera, but it

1560-454: A strongly worded statement from the AP demanding the bureau never impersonate a member of the news media again. In September 2016 the incident resulted in a report by the Justice Department, which the AP said "effectively condone[d] the FBI's impersonation". In December 2017, following a US court appearance, a judge ruled in favor of the AP in a lawsuit against the FBI for fraudulently impersonating

1638-622: A woman was an advantage in her experience there. The AP had requested news organizations including The New York Times , the Chicago Tribune , and The Washington Post to suppress the story to discourage the emboldening of the kidnappers. In September 2002, Washington, D.C. bureau reporter Christopher Newton, an AP reporter since 1994, was fired after he was accused of fabricating sources since 2000, including at least 40 people and organizations. Prior to his firing, Newton had been focused on writing about federal law-enforcement while based at

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1716-685: Is quoted: Is there going to be peace in the world? I'm a Christian. I believe eventually there will be, at the second coming . I think we are moving into an era of greater, or if not peace, at least of greater prosperity. Think about it: In the last 10 to 15 years there are hundreds of millions of people in the world who are living in a greater degree of individual responsibility and freedom and perhaps dignity than there were 15 years ago. That's true in eastern Europe, in Latin America, even in Asia. That great process of history, of thousands of years of an increase in

1794-589: Is the job of others to handle intelligence matters. Israel reportedly shared intelligence with American officials and U.S. president Joe Biden showing Hamas offices inside the building. Reporters Without Borders asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the bombing as a possible war crime . On June 8, Israeli Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan met with AP CEO Gary Pruitt and vice president for foreign news, Ian Phillips, to discuss

1872-791: The Chicago Daily News , revealed that several principals of the NYAP had entered into a secret agreement with United Press, a rival organization, to share NYAP news and the profits of reselling it. The revelations led to the demise of the NYAP and in December 1892, the Western Associated Press was incorporated in Illinois as the Associated Press. A 1900 Illinois Supreme Court decision ( Inter Ocean Publishing Co. v. Associated Press ) holding that

1950-746: The New York Evening Express . Some historians believe that the New-York Tribune joined at this time; documents show it was a member in 1849. The New York Times became a member in September 1851. Initially known as the New York Associated Press (NYAP), the organization faced competition from the Western Associated Press (1862), which criticized its monopolistic news gathering and price setting practices. An investigation completed in 1892 by Victor Lawson , editor and publisher of

2028-589: The Associated Press , serving in Kentucky, Japan and South Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as chief Middle Eastern correspondent for next two and a half years beginning in 1983. On March 16, 1985, Anderson had just finished a tennis game when he was abducted from the street in Beirut , placed in the trunk of a car, and taken to a secret location where he was imprisoned. For the next six years and nine months, he

2106-622: The Justice Department . Some of the nonexistent agencies quoted in his stories included "Education Alliance", the "Institute for Crime and Punishment in Chicago", "Voice for the Disabled", and "People for Civil Rights". In 2007, an FBI agent working in Seattle impersonated an AP journalist and infected the computer of a 15-year-old suspect with a malicious surveillance software. The incident sparked

2184-630: The Lebanese Civil War . During his captivity, numerous persons fiercely advocated for his release including his older sister Peggy Say, who rallied support from Mother Teresa , Pope John Paul II , Yasir Arafat , and Ronald Reagan , professional journalists Dan Rather and Kevin Cooney, who was a close friend from Anderson's days in Iowa, his fellow colleagues at the Associated Press and numerous other journalists who had covered war zones. Anderson

2262-571: The University of Kentucky . In 2009, Anderson joined the faculty of the School of Journalism at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky . In November 2009, he filed for bankruptcy under chapter 7. In 2011, he became a visiting professional at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University . In 2013, he acted as Honorary Chair of the Committee to Protect Journalists ,

2340-584: The White House , falsely claiming that President Obama had been injured. The hoax caused a flash crash on the American stock markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average briefly falling by 143 points. On May 13, 2013, the AP announced telephone records for 20 of their reporters during a two-month period in 2012, had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Justice Department and described these acts as

2418-488: The 20th District in the Ohio Senate . His opponent was Republican candidate Joy Padgett , who had been appointed to the seat earlier in the term. Padgett ran controversial ads suggesting that Anderson would be soft on terrorism: the ads showed Anderson shaking hands with one of his former kidnappers. He received 46% of the vote in a district that leans Republican; the seat has been held by Republicans since 1977. Anderson

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2496-535: The AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for

2574-558: The AP and the Nazi government related to the interchange of press photos during the period in which the United States were at war with Nazi Germany . This relationship involved the Bureau Laux, run by the Waffen-SS photographer Helmut Laux . The mechanism for this interchange involved a courier flying to Lisbon and back each day transporting photos from and for Nazi Germany's wartime enemy,

2652-502: The AP as their first source for news coverage of breaking news items. This and the constant updating evolving stories require has had a major impact on the AP's public image and role, giving new credence to the AP's ongoing mission of having staff for covering every area of news fully and promptly. In 2007, Google announced that it was paying to receive AP content, to be displayed in Google News , interrupted from late 2009 to mid-2010 due to

2730-485: The AP monitors and gathers data from county websites and electronic feeds provided by states. The research team further verifies the results by considering demographics, number of absentee ballots, and other political issues that may have an effect on the final results. In 2018, the AP introduced a new system called AP VoteCast , which was developed together with NORC at the University of Chicago in order to further improve

2808-563: The AP of killing a story he wrote about the "war of words", "between Israel and its critics in human rights organizations", in the aftermath of the Israel/Gaza conflict of 2008–09 . On September 29, 2000, the first day of the Second Intifada , the AP published a photograph of a badly bloodied young man behind whom a police officer could be seen with a baton raised in a menacing fashion; a gas station with Hebrew lettering could also be seen in

2886-418: The AP routinely takes similar excerpts from other sources, often without attribution or licenses. The AP responded that it was defining standards regarding citations of AP news. In March 2009, the AP counter-sued artist Shepard Fairey over his famous image of Barack Obama , saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism . Fairey had sued

2964-556: The AP said it would launch a review of its social media policies after questions were raised about the firing of a journalist who expressed pro-Palestinian views on social media. The announcement came after some AP journalists signed a letter expressing concern over the termination of former news associate Emily Wilder, whom the AP said committed multiple violations of the company's social media policy . The AP has said that Wilder's previous activism played no role in her termination. In May 2024, Israeli officials seized equipment broadcasting

3042-702: The AP the previous month over his artwork, titled "Obama Hope" and "Obama Progress", arguing that he did not violate copyright law because he dramatically changed the image. The artwork, based on an April 2006 picture taken for the AP by Mannie Garcia , was a popular image during the 2008 presidential election and now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. According to the AP lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, Fairey knowingly "misappropriated The AP's rights in that image". The suit asked

3120-684: The AP to distribute their local news reports. The Associated Press was formed in May 1846 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican–American War . The venture was organized by Moses Yale Beach (1800–68), second publisher of The Sun , joined by the New York Herald , the New York Courier and Enquirer , The Journal of Commerce , and

3198-399: The AP was a public utility and operating in restraint of trade resulted in the AP's move from Chicago to New York City, where corporation laws were more favorable to cooperatives. Melville Stone , who had founded the Chicago Daily News in 1875, served as AP general manager from 1893 to 1921. The AP adopted teletype for its New York service in 1914. The cooperative grew rapidly under

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3276-610: The AP. The AP entered the broadcast field in 1941 when it began distributing news to radio stations; it created its own radio network in 1974. In 1994, it established APTV, a global video newsgathering agency. APTV merged with Worldwide Television News in 1998 to form APTN , which provides video to international broadcasters and websites. In 2004, the AP moved its headquarters from its long time home at 50 Rockefeller Plaza to 450 West 33rd Street in Manhattan. In 2019, AP had more than 240 bureaus globally. Its mission—"to gather with economy and efficiency an accurate and impartial report of

3354-654: The State Department immediately engaged with the government of Israel at high levels to express our serious concern and ask them to reverse this action." Later that day, Israeli Communication Minister Shlomo Karhi announced via Twitter that the equipment would be returned to the AP and the Israeli Government would review the positioning of the AP broadcast to determine if it posed a security risk. On January 10, 2022, AP announced it would start selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their photographs in partnership with

3432-554: The United States, via diplomatic pouch . The transactions were initially conducted at the AP bureau under Luiz Lupi in Lisbon, and from 1944, when the exchange via Lisbon took too long, also at the AP bureau in Stockholm under Eddie Shanke. Here, as a cover, the Swedish agency, Pressens Bild  [ sv ] , was involved as an intermediary. An estimated 40,000 photos were exchanged between

3510-517: The Year Award in 1959, for a manager in each league. From 1984 to 2000, the award was given to one manager in all of MLB. The winners were chosen by a national panel of AP baseball writers and radio men. The award was discontinued in 2001. Every year, the AP releases the names of the winners of its AP College Basketball Player of the Year and AP College Basketball Coach of the Year awards. It also honors

3588-472: The age of 76. He had recently undergone heart surgery. Anderson's papers are held at Iowa State University. Associated Press The Associated Press ( AP ) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City . Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative , unincorporated association , and produces news reports that are distributed to its members, major U.S. daily newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Since

3666-542: The award was established in 1917, the AP has earned 59 Pulitzer Prizes , including 36 for photography. The AP is also known for its widely used AP Stylebook , its AP polls tracking NCAA sports , and its election polls and results during US elections . By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters. The AP operates 235 news bureaus in 94 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic. It also operates

3744-479: The award was established in 1917. In May 2020, Dar Yasin , Mukhtar Khan , and Channi Anand of the AP were honored with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography . The choice caused controversy, because it was taken by some as questioning "India's legitimacy over Kashmir" as it had used the word "independence" in regard to revocation of Article 370 . The AP won an Oscar in 2024 for 20 Days in Mariupol ,

3822-522: The background. The AP labelled it with the caption "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount", and the picture and caption were subsequently published in several major American newspapers, including the New York Times . In reality, the injured man in the photograph was a Jewish yeshiva student from Chicago named Tuvia Grossman , and the police officer, a Druze named Gidon Tzefadi,

3900-431: The cause and year of his death remain unclear. This list includes the recipients of the award as recorded at the official CPJ website. It is sortable by year, name, and country; owing to naming conventions in different countries, not all names are sorted by last name. Names in italics are publications which have received the award. Terry A. Anderson Terry Alan Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024)

3978-458: The ceremony in 2011. Sri Lankan reporter J. S. Tissainayagam was also awarded in 2009 while imprisoned, but was released in time to attend the 2010 ceremony, quipping in his acceptance speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, my apologies for being late." The award was given posthumously on three occasions: to David Kaplan , an ABC News producer killed by a sniper in Sarajevo in 1992; to Paul Klebnikov ,

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4056-478: The ceremony was briefly disrupted by protesters who unfurled a banner calling for the release of former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal from Pennsylvania 's death row. The first awards were given in 1991 to American photojournalist Bill Foley and his wife, journalist Cary Vaughan ; Cameroonian reporter Pius Njawé ; Chinese dissidents Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming ; Russian television news anchor Tatyana Mitkova ; and Guatemalan reporter Byron Barrera . In 2014,

4134-524: The chairperson is Gracia C. Martore , former president and CEO of Tegna, Inc. The AP is the only organization that collects and verifies election results in every city and county across the United States, including races for the U.S. president, the Senate and House of Representatives, and governors as well as other statewide offices. Known for accuracy, the organization has collected and published presidential election data since 1848. Major news outlets rely on

4212-487: The court to award the AP profits made off the image and damages. Fairey said he looked forward to "upholding the free expression rights at stake here" and disproving the AP's accusations. In January 2011 this suit was settled with neither side declaring their position to be wrong but agreeing to share reproduction rights and profits from Fairey's work. In January 2008, the AP sued competitor All Headline News (AHN) claiming that AHN allegedly infringed on its copyrights and

4290-574: The enemies in this way. The AP was kicked out of Nazi Germany when the United States entered World War II in December 1941. In his book Broken Spring: An American-Israeli Reporter's Close-up View of How Egyptians Lost Their Struggle for Freedom , former AP correspondent Mark Lavie claimed that the editorial line of the Cairo bureau was that the conflict was Israel's fault and the Arabs and Palestinians were blameless. Israeli journalist Matti Friedman accused

4368-744: The global broadcast customers, 15% from online ventures and 18% came from international newspapers and from photography. In March 2024, Gannett , the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation, announced that effective March 25, 2024, it would no longer use content from the AP. A spokesperson for AP said that they were "shocked and disappointed" by this development. Newspaper chain McClatchy announced that it would also stop using some AP services. Gannett and McClatchy will both continue to use AP's election results data. The AP's multi-topic structure has resulted in web portals such as Yahoo! and MSN posting its articles, often relying on

4446-576: The leadership of Kent Cooper, who served from 1925 to 1948 and who built up bureau staff in South America, Europe and (after World War II ), the Middle East. In 1935, the AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken. This gave the AP a major advantage over other news media outlets. While the first network

4524-473: The news"—has not changed since its founding, but digital technology has made the distribution of the AP news report an interactive endeavor between the AP and its 1,400 U.S. newspaper members as well as broadcasters, international subscribers, and online customers. The AP began diversifying its news gathering capabilities. By 2007 the AP was generating only about 30% of its revenue from United States newspapers, and by 2024, this had declined to 10%. 37% came from

4602-439: The number one spot of the poll since its inception. In the pre-bowl game determination era, the AP poll was often used as the distinction for a national champion in football. The AP college basketball poll has been used as a guide for which teams deserve national attention. The AP first began its poll of college basketball teams in 1949, and has since conducted over 1,100 polls. The college basketball poll started with 20 teams and

4680-457: The operation. In coordination with the IDF, Erdan said the site was used by Hamas intelligence officials to develop and carry out electronic warfare operations, and that IDF did not suspect the AP was aware of the alleged covert Hamas presence. After the meeting the AP stated "We have yet to receive evidence to support these claims". Erdan later tweeted "Israel is willing to assist AP in rebuilding its offices and operations in Gaza." In May 2021,

4758-521: The organization awarded its twenty-fourth group of journalists. On three occasions, an award was also given to a news organization of which multiple staffers have been at risk: Tajikistan newspaper Navidi Vakhsh (1994), several reporters of which murdered during the 1992–1997 civil war ; Guatemalan newspaper Siglo Veintiuno (1995), which was subject to police and army raids for its uncensored coverage of government corruption and human rights violations; and Turkish newspaper Özgür Gündem (1996), which

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4836-447: The photograph continues to be used by critics of Israel as a symbol of Israeli aggression and violence. During the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis , the Israeli army destroyed the al-Jalaa Highrise , a building housing the AP's Gaza offices and Al Jazeera offices. Israel stated that the building housed Hamas military intelligence and had given advanced warning of the strike, and no civilians were harmed. AP CEO Gary Pruitt released

4914-407: The polling data and results provided by the Associated Press before declaring a winner in major political races, particularly the presidential election. In declaring the winners, the AP has historically relied on a robust network of local reporters with first-hand knowledge of assigned territories who also have long-standing relationships with county clerks as well as other local officials. Moreover,

4992-451: The reliability of its data and overcome biases of its legacy exit poll . The AP conducts polls for numerous college sports in the United States . The AP college football rankings were created in 1936, and began including the top 25 teams in 1989. Since 1969, the final poll of each season has been released after all bowl games have been played. The AP released its all-time Top 25 in 2016. As of 2017 , 22 different programs had finished in

5070-562: The right in United States courts to sue foreign countries which are classified as sponsors of terrorism by the United States State Department. Estimates put the amount he actually received at $ 26 million. The judgement from U.S. District Judge Jackson also awarded $ 10 million to his second wife Madeleine Bassil and $ 6.7 million to their daughter Sulome Anderson with $ 40 million for his parents Glen and Lily (Lunn) Anderson through additional lawsuits. Anderson for some time lived in Nicholasville , Kentucky , teaching journalism and diversity at

5148-460: Was a waitress and his father was a truck driver. He was raised in Batavia, New York , and graduated from Batavia High School in 1965. A professional journalist , he was in the United States Marine Corps for six years, serving as a combat journalist for five years among Japan, Okinawa, and Vietnam. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam during the Vietnam War . As a staff sergeant in the Marine Corps, he spent his final year at Ames, Iowa , as

5226-496: Was an American journalist and combat veteran. He reported for the Associated Press . In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until 1991. In 2004, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio State Senate . Anderson was born in Lorain, Ohio , on October 27, 1947. In Lorain, his father Glen Anderson was the village police officer and, later, when his family moved to Batavia, New York, his mother Lily (Lunn) Anderson

5304-408: Was held captive, being moved periodically to new sites. His captors were a group of Hezbollah Shiite Muslims who were supported by Iran in supposed retaliation for Israel's use of U.S. weapons and aid in its 1982–83 strikes against Muslim and Druze targets in Lebanon. He was the longest-held of the Western hostages captured by Hezbollah in an effort to drive U.S. military forces from Lebanon during

5382-399: Was in charge of the AP investigation and would have ordered the subpoenas. The AP collaborated with Nazi Germany and gave to it access to its photographic archives for its antisemitic Nazi propaganda . AP also cooperated with the Nazi regime through censorship . In 2017, the German historian Norman Domeier of the University of Vienna brought to wider attention the deal between

5460-437: Was married and divorced three times. He met his first wife, Mihoko "Mickey" Anderson, while he was a Marine stationed with the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service in Japan . They had one daughter Gabrielle Anderson, but later divorced. After 1982, he became engaged to Madeleine Bassil, a Lebanese native from a Maronite Christian family; they had one daughter, Sulome Anderson , born in 1985, three months after he

5538-439: Was only between New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, eventually the AP had its network across the whole United States. In 1945, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Associated Press v. United States that the AP had been violating the Sherman Antitrust Act by prohibiting member newspapers from selling or providing news to nonmember organizations as well as making it very difficult for nonmember newspapers to join

5616-533: Was protecting Grossman from a Palestinian mob who had clubbed, stoned, and stabbed Grossman. There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount. The episode is often cited by those who accuse the media of having an anti-Israel bias, and was the impetus for the founding of HonestReporting . After a letter from Grossman's father noted the error, the AP, the New York Times, and other papers published corrections; despite these corrections,

5694-590: Was reduced to 10 during the 1960-61 college basketball season. It returned to 20 teams in 1968-69 and expanded to 25 beginning in 1989–90. The final poll for each season is released prior to the conclusion of the NCAA tournament , so all data includes regular season games only. In 2017, The AP released a list of the Top 100 teams of all time. The poll counted poll appearances (one point) and No. 1 rankings (two points) to rank each team. The AP began its Major League Baseball Manager of

5772-468: Was released on December 4, 1991, and said he had forgiven his captors. Later, when asked if he would return to the Middle East as a correspondent, he stated, "I wouldn't go there for a million dollars. It is very dangerous." After his release, Anderson taught courses at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University . He wrote

5850-546: Was subject to a campaign of publication bans, assassinations, and arrests for its reporting on the conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the Kurdistan Workers' Party . Occasionally, imprisoned laureates accept their awards at a later ceremony, such as China's Jiang Weiping , who was awarded in 2001 but attended the ceremony in 2009, and Azerbaijan's Eynulla Fatullayev , who was awarded in 2009 but attended

5928-488: Was subsequently deleted and the NFT, which was to be sold the next day, was pulled from market. Global director of media relations Lauren Easton apologized, saying "This was a poor choice of imagery for an NFT. It has not and will not be put up for auction [...] AP's NFT marketplace is a very early pilot program, and we are immediately reviewing our efforts". The AP has earned 58 Pulitzer Prizes , including 35 for photography, since

6006-525: Was taken hostage. After his release, Anderson and Bassil were married in 1993, but later divorced. A fan of blues music , Anderson owned the Blue Gator from early 2002 until mid-2008, a blues bar in Athens, Ohio , which hosted regional and national acts. In an interview in the spring 1995 newsletter of the School of Journalism Alumni Association, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, by Will Norton Jr., Anderson

6084-498: Was the first news agency to launch a live video news service in 2003. The Associated Press Stylebook (generally called the AP Stylebook ), alternatively titled The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law , is a style and usage guide for American English grammar created by American journalists working for or connected with the Associated Press journalism cooperative based in New York City . The Stylebook offers

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