A not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members
The Associated Press has been breaking news since it was created in 1846. That year, five New York City newspapers got together to fund a pony express route through Alabama in order to bring news of the Mexican War north more quickly than the U.S. Post Office could deliver it. In the decades since, AP has been first to tell the world of many of history’s most important moments, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the fall of the shah of Iran and the death of Pope John Paul.
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Basic Info
| Types | Organization, Membership Organization, Other Not-for-Profit, Private Company, Media Organization |
| Start date | 1846 |
| Website | http://www.ap.org/ |
| Aliases | AP |