The Associated Press is a global news organization that gathers and distributes news to its member newspapers, broadcasters, and other media outlets. It operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association, providing factual, unbiased news reports on a wide variety of topics including politics.
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News Agency: An organization that collects news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations; the AP is one of the world's largest such agencies.
The activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or broadcast news outlets; journalism is foundational to the work done by the Associated Press.
Media Outlet: A publication or broadcast program that provides news and information to the public; these are primary recipients of content from the Associated Press