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Article: The Associated Press
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The Associated Press
450 West 33rd Street
New York, New York 10001
U.S.A.
Telephone: (212) 621-1500
Fax: (212) 621-5447
Web site: http://www.ap.org
Private Cooperative
Incorporated:
1848 as Associated Press of New York
Employees:
3,700
Sales:
$630.1 million (2004)
NAIC:
519110 News Syndicates; 519190 All Other Information Services
The Associated Press (AP) describes itself as the largest newsgathering organization in the world. Organized as a nonprofit cooperative, AP provides news and graphics to over 1,700 member newspapers in 121 countries around the world. To collect the news and photographs it supplies to its members, AP maintains 242 worldwide news bureaus. AP also provides a broad ...