The Associated Press (AP) [4] 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.

6 days ago · Steven R. Swartz is Chairman of the AP and President & CEO of Hearst, and Gary B. Pruitt is the President and CEO of the Associated Press. Here is the complete AP Board of Directors and the management committee list.

May 2, 2022 · Reuters is owned by Thomson Reuters, a Canadian information news company, according to Britannica. The agency’s 2021 Annual Report stated its principal shareholder is Woodbridge Company Limited, which owns 67 percent of the company’s shares.

The Associated Press (also called the AP and AP Wire) is an American non-profit news agency company. It is based in New York City. The AP is a non-profit cooperative owned by the major United States daily newspapers, radio and television stations who share its news stories.

The Associated Press is a global, not-for-profit news cooperative. Discover more about our global, historical, multiformat and innovative coverage at AP.org.

May 12, 2022 · Reuters does not own the Associated Press. Instead, AP is an independent nonprofit cooperative owned by newspapers and broadcasters in the USA.

Feb 2, 2025 · Midwestern newspaper publishers formed the Western Associated Press in 1862, and in 1892 it broke from the New York Associated Press and was incorporated separately in Illinois as the Associated Press. In 1900 the regional organizations merged, and the modern AP was incorporated.

The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization. Formed in 1846, The Associated Press is governed by an elected board of directors chosen from the heads of a number of large news organizations including newspapers and broadcasters.

May 29, 2019 · No one owns AP. We are truly independent, neither part of a corporation nor funded by any government. We are a not-for-profit cooperative – not a charity, but run like a business.

AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, as a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members, it can maintain its single-minded focus on newsgathering and its commitment to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism.