Elana Schor named AP politics reporter
Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace announced today a key appointment, sending this memo to staff:
A commitment to deep global journalism
In a busy news week saturated with coverage of the U.S. midterm elections, AP’s effort to count the uncountable -- tens of thousands of migrants dead and missing since 2014 -- broke through.
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Stellar debut for AP VoteCast
AP VoteCast, our new election survey of the American electorate developed with NORC at the University of Chicago, delivered impressive results in the U.S. midterm elections one week ago.
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The importance of trust in polling
Speaking to technology industry executives at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday, Executive Editor Sally Buzbee addressed AP’s election coverage, trust around polling and the accuracy of AP’s new voter survey in telling the story of the U.S. midterm elections.
Continue reading >The role of a free press in a democracy
In response to an announcement from the White House on Wednesday that it has revoked press credentials provided to a CNN reporter, AP released this statement from Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace:
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