Beyond exit polls: AP tests online surveys of voters
To help in calling winners and explaining why candidates won, The Associated Press has been testing new ways to survey voters around Election Day. After all, in the last presidential election, more than a third of voters did not go to a polling place on Election Day but instead voted ahead of time or by mail.
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When vulgarity becomes part of the story, what's a news agency to do?
When someone at a Donald Trump rally last month shouted that Ted Cruz was “a pussy,” Trump repeated the word into the mic. A few days ago, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told a roomful of journalists, "My party has gone batshit crazy."
Continue reading >Stepping back from the horse race
Five years after the launch of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the organization has been shining a bright light on why the presidential campaign has defied initial predictions.
Continue reading >AP withdraws submission to World Press Photo contest
The Associated Press issued this statement today from Vice President for Photography Santiago Lyon regarding the World Press Photo awards announced Thursday in Amsterdam:
Continue reading >AP cameraman wins Royal Television Society award
AP's Mstyslav Chernov was named Camera Operator of the Year at the Royal Television Society’s 2016 Television Journalism Awards Thursday night in London.
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