News Highlights

A hot, steamy day at the Paris Olympics. Here’s a look at Day 4

JULY 30, 2024

‘White Dudes for Harris’ is the latest in a series of Zoom gatherings backing the vice president

JULY 30, 2024

Donald Trump says he ‘probably’ will debate Kamala Harris but ‘can also make a case for not’

JULY 30, 2024

Spotlights

Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back

JULY 29, 2024

Spotlights

Unintended consequences: How NIL in college sports has raised questions about nonprofits

JULY 29, 2024

Spotlights

Refugee athletes want more of them to compete at the Olympics as migration takes global focus

JULY 29, 2024

Best of AP — First Winner

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Best of AP — Second Winner

Novel approach engages audience on Venezuela election

Ten years into Venezuela’s economic and social crisis, it’s difficult to find new ways to engage audiences: The story is complex and nuanced, and the sheer length of crisis means many people have tuned out. That’s what makes Regina Garcia Cano’s story about couples breaking up because one member is leaving the country so good. […]

JULY 26, 2024

Best of AP — Honorable Mention

The biggest of stories came to the small city of Butler. AP showed how its newspaper met the moment

Media reporter David Bauder of the Trends+Culture unit thought a unique angle for the weekend after the Trump shooting would be to explore how Butler’s local newspaper — like so many, struggling in a jumbled journalism economy — responded when the world’s biggest story unfolded in its backyard. Photographer Matt Slocum and video journalist Joe […]

JULY 26, 2024

Persistence, source building and originality leads to critical, in-depth coverage of working conditions in greenhouses

When climate and agriculture reporter Melina Walling was covering the rise of vertical farming in greenhouses last year, she approached workers from the vertical farm AppHarvest to find out more about the trend. It quickly became apparent that the workers had negative feelings toward the company, and Walling visited them in Kentucky several times to find […]

JULY 26, 2024

Best of Elections

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‘White Dudes for Harris’ is the latest in a series of Zoom gatherings backing the vice president

JULY 30, 2024

Donald Trump says he ‘probably’ will debate Kamala Harris but ‘can also make a case for not’

JULY 30, 2024