Document dig uncovers government awareness of lead-tainted soil
In a memo to staff, Vice President for U.S. News Brian Carovillano recounted how two reporters were able to show “decades of neglect” that had allowed the residents of one industrial town, including 700 children, to be exposed to lead:
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Understanding the ‘Politics of pain’
During an especially intense news period, marked by a bomb blast in Manhattan and a subsequent manhunt in New Jersey, an investigation into the politics behind America’s opioid epidemic still received the attention it deserved.
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What AP learned about using online surveys to measure support for presidential candidates
After commissioning an experiment designed to test new ways to survey voters who cast ballots early, AP updates its findings, using new breakdowns of advance and Election Day voting in the Florida primary.
Continue reading >AP statement on inspector general report
Vice President and Director of Media Relations Paul Colford issued this statement in response to a report by the inspector general in the U.S. Department of Justice that found the FBI did not violate policies in place in 2007 when it impersonated an AP journalist:
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AP photos of presidential campaigns go on view in Virginia
An exhibition of AP photos showing presidential campaigns over the past 100 years, including Calvin Coolidge clad in cowboy attire and John F. Kennedy covered in confetti as his car crawls through Los Angeles, has opened in Virginia at the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts.
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