Founded in 1846, AP is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting today remains the most trusted source of news being 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 1846, the Associated Press journalists have been on the ground to capture the story, get the shot and chronicle some of the biggest moments of the past two centuries — and we’re still at it today.
This year marks 180 years since AP’s inception to start when five newspaper publishers pooled their resources to get faster reports from the front lines of the Mexican-American War. The world has changed significantly since the days of news delivered by pony-express relays and telegraphs.
Associated Press journalists have reported from some of the most seismic moments of the last 180 years.
It was a 21-year-old AP reporter named Joseph Ignatius Gilbert who transcribed President Abraham Lincoln’s words in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania — directly from the president’s own copy of what is now considered one of the most significant speeches in American history.
When Germany surrendered to Allied forces in May of 1945, AP was the first to report the end of World War II in Europe.
After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, AP journalist Kathryn Johnson was the only member of the press that his widow Coretta Scott King allowed inside the family home in the days after his death.
The world has transformed many times over since 1846. However, AP has delivered the news quickly, accurately and independently. Today, AP operates in 220 locations in nearly 100 countries.
Since the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917, the AP has earned 60 of them, including 36 for photography.
In 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters.
Besides publishing the news, it also operates the AP Radio Network,
As of 2025, the AP attracts more than 128 million monthly website visits, making it one of the top 10 news websites in the U.S.
(Based on AP reports source and Wikipedia)
