Tag: AP

Hal McClure Dies; Journalist Was 92
Journalist Hal McClure has died at the age of 92. According to an Associated Press...
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AP Twitter Hack Gets The NMA Treatment
Though Tuesday's hack of the AP's Twitter account that sent U.S. markets into a freefa...
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AP Twitter Account Back Up Following Hack
After being down for over 20 hours following a hack, the Associated Press' Twitter account is now back up and running. "Thank you for your patience," tweeted the...
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AP Hacked, Tweets About White House Explosion
Two explosions have not rocked the White House and President Obama is not injured. But if you follow the Associated Press' official Twitter account, you might have seen some di...
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AP: ‘Illegal Immigrant’ No Longer an Acceptable Term
The AP, apart from being a news organization, also publishes a highly influential stylebook used by schools and journalists across the country. And they have just made a pretty sig...
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Ruling In AP/Meltwater Case Could Be Trouble For Search Engines
Search engines and fair use suffered a legal blow this week, as a judge sided with the Associated Press in its ongoing case against Meltwater, a service that scans news from around...
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Newspapers Support AP Fight Against Meltwater
A group of newspapers, including The New York Times, has lent its support to The Associated Press in a lawsuit against Meltwater, a company...
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The AP Links, But For Those Running AP Stories, It’s Up To Them
This week, we ran an article about the Associated Press and its linking policie...
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Associated Press: You Can Link, But It’s Not Encouraged [Updated]
The Associated Press and the Internet at large have had something or a rocky relationship through the years. The organization has not taken kindly to the direction web news has gon...
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Journalism & Technology Scholarships for Six Lucky Winners of Google and AP Contest
Last summer Google announced a joint scholarship program for aspiring journalists wi...
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Should News Organizations Pay People For Their Tweets?
Let me start off by saying: No. I don't think news organizations should have to pay people for referencing their tweets. But this is a similar logic to how some traditional news or...
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Twitter Algorithm Can Predict News Popularity
News sites already know how to modify their stories to gain maximum search potential, but what if you could do the same with Twitter? Researchers at...
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Tom Curley Steps Down As AP President And CEO
Tom Curley, President and CEO of the Associated Press announced that he is stepping down today, and that the AP's board has began the search for his replacement....
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Joe Paterno Dead (This Time It’s Real)
Update 2: Penn State has put out the following statement: Legendary Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno passed away today (Jan. 22) after announcing a mo...
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Court Issues Blow to Hot News Doctrine, AP Calls it a Win
An interesting debate about the "Hot News" doctrine has arisen from a court ruling, or the overturning of a ruling rather, that says TheFl...
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