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Associated Press
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Type    Not-for-profit cooperative
Industry    News media
Founded    May 1846[1]
Headquarters    New York City, New York, U.S.
Area served    Worldwide
Key people    Gary B. Pruitt, President and CEO
Products    Wire service
Revenue    Decrease US$627.6 million (2011)[2]
Operating income    Decrease US$34.2 million (2011)[2]
Net income    Decrease US$193.3 million (2011)[2]
Employees    3,400
Website    AP.org


The AP headquarters in October 2008, located at 450 West 33rd Street, in New York City, New York.
The Associated Press (AP) is an American multinational non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. The AP is a non-profit cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, all of which contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. The AP staff is represented by the Newspaper Guild union, which operates under the Communication Workers union, which operates under the AFL-CIO. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative.
As of 2005, the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,001 television and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The Associated Press operates 243 news bureaus and it serves at least 120 countries, with an international staff located worldwide.
Associated Press also operates The Associated Press Radio Network, which provides newscasts twice hourly for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. The AP Radio also offers news and public affairs features, feeds of news sound bites and long form coverage of major events.
As part of their cooperative agreement with The Associated Press, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their local news reports. For example, on page two of every edition of The Washington Post, the newspaper's masthead includes the statement, "The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for re-publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and all local news of sponta