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Founded in 1846, The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video for more than one billion people a day.
AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with 3,700 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus. AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members. They elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.
AP supplies a steady stream of news around the clock to its domestic members, international subscribers and commercial customers. It has the industry's most sophisticated digital photo network, a 24-hour continuously updated online news service, a state-of-the-art television news service and one of the largest radio networks in the United States. It also has a commercial digital photo archive, a photo library housing more than 10 million images and provides advertising management services.
The Associated Press has received 48 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in the categories for which it can compete. It has 29 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization.
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The Canadian Press along with its broadcast affiliate, Broadcast News, and French-language counterparts, La Presse Canadienne and NTR, is Canada's bilingual, multimedia news agency. CP has been keeping Canadians informed and telling people the story of their country for almost 90 years (more on CP history).
Over 250 CP journalists produce award-winning stories, photos, graphics, audio and video (more on our people). CP's multimedia news is delivered round the clock and in real time to about 100 daily newspapers and more than 500 radio and TV stations. All rely on CPÕs news coverage when preparing their print pages, online sites and on-air newscasts (more on who we serve).
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Kyodo is a nonprofit cooperative organization run on an annual budget, primarily made up of membership dues and revenues from nonmember subscribers.
Kyodo's Japanese-language news service is distributed to almost all newspapers and radio-TV networks in Japan. The combined circulation of newspaper subscribers is about 50 million.
Kyodo has some 1,000 journalists and photographers. More than half of them are posted at the Tokyo head office, assigned to political, financial, business, city, sports, science and cultural news desks plus various government offices and business organizations. Others work at five regional offices and 48 local bureaus across the country.
For international newsgathering, some 70 full-time correspondents and 40 stringers are posted at 50 places outside Japan. News coverage focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, where some 50 staffers, including local employees, are posted at 19 places. The second largest concentration of correspondents is in North America, followed by Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.
Additional news, amounting to some 1 million words a day, comes from more than 70 foreign news agencies with which Kyodo has news exchange arrangements. Kyodo has been a member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) since its founding in 1961 and has close links with some 30 other members of the regional organization.
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From the core newswire services to video bulletins for digital platforms, The Press Association is providing a continuous stream of news, images, information and data. We have a network of news and sports reporters, photographers and video journalists around the country and key locations overseas covering all major breaking stories.
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