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The Associated Press

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The Associated Press is an American not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City, founded in 1846 by a group of New York newspapers to share the cost of covering the Mexican-American War by telegraph. Owned by its contributing US newspaper and broadcast members, it is one of the world's largest and oldest news organizations, and its AP Stylebook is a widely used journalism style guide.

Facts
Company Type
Cooperative, unincorporated association 2
Founded Year
1846 2
Headquarters
New York City, New York 2
Company Type
Company Type (category)
News Agency 1
Company Type (category)
Cooperative 2
Connections

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A major media, broadcasting or news company; classified in the atlas media-and-entertainment-industry.

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1. Wikidata: The Associated Press
  • Wikidata Q40469, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q40469 P31=Q192283 (news-agency) (w-bbfill-business4-0926 knownqid fetch)
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2. Associated Press (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section, founding
    Founded in 1846
  • History section, structure
    operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association
  • Infobox, Headquarters
    headquartered in New York City
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