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How to gather international news in a perilous world

Two dozen international editors convened in Boston last week for the International Press Institute/Associated Press Foreign Editors' Circle, where they discussed the challenges journalists face when working abroad.

AP receives 5 awards from Deadline Club

AP received five awards on Tuesday evening from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. More than 100 news organizations submitted a total of 623 entries for consideration by the judges in the annual journalistic competition.

PR tips for universities

Join us for a webinar at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, May 26, to learn how to get faculty to comment in the media, find speaking opportunities for staff and connect communications campaigns to trending issues. We will be looking at how to search AP's database to find events relevant to you and ways to make the most of them.

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FROM AP'S 2015 ANNUAL REPORT

New capabilities meet customer demand

AP broadened and enhanced coverage for customers in 2015 by launching more live video channels, offering greater breadth of video content, delivering big data journalism to more newsrooms and identifying breaking news in a new running format. At the same time we paved the way for future newsgathering potential by investing in new technologies and partnering with media venture startups.

ACCOUNTABILITY AND CHANGES FOLLOW AP'S REPORTING

It took more than a year of unrelenting investigation, often undercover, for AP journalists to expose the use of forced labor in Southeast Asia’s seafood industry. It took a year to highlight crumbling infrastructure across America. It takes talent, hard work — and time — to produce great journalism that has impact. Take a look at some of the fine work AP journalists delivered to front pages, websites and broadcasts across the globe in 2015.

AP by the numbers: A look at 2015 through stats and figures

Whether it’s video, images or text in newspapers, on television or online, the AP brings the news to people around the world.

US Supply Chain Tainted by Slave-Caught Fish

A year-long investigation by the Associated Press has found that seafood caught by slaves in Indonesia is sent to Thailand, where the fish can wind up in the supply chains of Wal-mart, Kroger, Albertsons, and Safeway.

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