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Associated Press

LC control no.n 80075894
Descriptive conventionsrda
Corporate name headingAssociated Press
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Variant(s)AP
A.P.
See alsoFounder: Beach, Moses Yale, 1800-1868
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New England Associated Press
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Beginning date1846
Found inRowley, Background map for PMS from AP Newsfeatures, 1953.
Associated Press website, October 15, 2018 (The Associated Press is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association)
Email from AP Corporate Archives, Aug. 28, 2023 (Associated Press; est. 1846 by Moses Yale Beach to share costs of transmitting news of the Mexican War to New York via boat, pony and telegraph; the cooperative venture initially included five papers: the Sun, the Journal of Commerce, the Courier and Enquirer, the Herald, and the Express; completely distinct from the Harbor News Association, which was formed in 1848 by Beach and others to share the costs of a news boat to collect marine intelligence in the waters around New York)