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Sandy Cohen, AP Entertainment writer, Los Angeles, for obtaining an exclusive walkthrough of new procedures by the film academy and accounting firm PwC to avoid another envelope flub like the one that resulted in the incorrect naming of the best picture winner at last year’s Oscars. http://bit.ly/2EywzPo
FEB. 2, 2018
The approach to Vatican Correspondent Nicole Winfield came from a member of a task force that had investigated care at Italy’s foremost pediatric facility, known as “the pope’s hospital.” The contact feared that serious concerns raised by the task force hadn’t been addressed two years later. That tip, in late 2015, set the AP on […]
JULY 14, 2017
ROME (AP) — When doctors and nurses at the Vatican’s showcase children’s hospital complained in 2014 that corners were being cut and medical protocols ignored, the Vatican responded by ordering up a secret in-house investigation. The diagnosis: The original mission of “the pope’s hospital” had been lost and was “today more aimed at profit than on caring for children.” […]
JULY 5, 2017
Baton Rouge-based reporter Michael Kunzelman was reporting on the police killing of a black man outside a convenience store last summer when a source called to encourage him to look into a case in front of a federal judge that had been mysteriously reassigned. It wasn’t the easiest time to be chasing down tips: the […]
APRIL 21, 2017
A face transplant: It’s one of the rarest of surgeries, a medically complex, emotionally fraught procedure – and a challenge to cover as a truly revealing news story and not just a sensational headline. That’s why AP National Writer Sharon Cohen’s narrative of the first face transplant performed at the renowned Mayo Clinic was so […]
FEB. 24, 2017
The auto industry and Hollywood entertainment could hardly be more different worlds. But for AP reporters covering them, they have this in common: Building sources is essential. Last week, Tom Krisher, a Detroit-based auto writer, and Lynn Elber, the TV writer in Los Angeles, demonstrated the value of great beat reporting. Both scored scoops that […]
DEC. 2, 2016
David Dishneau, correspondent, Mid-Atlantic/Hagerstown, Maryland, for an exclusive story saying Maryland’s prison system would change procedures for notifying victims about inmate deaths. The change came after a slain woman’s son received an email saying the killer had been released, when in fact he had died. http://bit.ly/2dn6DKa
OCT. 7, 2016
The AP reporters, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan, will share the award for foreign reporting with Ian Urbina of The New York Times, for a separate series portraying widespread lawlessness at sea. The awards were announced Sunday by Long Island University. Journalists who wrote about segregated schools, killings by police officers […]
FEB. 15, 2016
Joe Danborn (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) In his new job, Danborn, who grew up in the Denver area, will oversee news coverage for Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. He’ll be based in Denver. The appointment was announced Thursday by Interim West Editor Anna Johnson, who oversees news for 13 states west of the Rockies. “Joe is a […]
FEB. 11, 2016
Prepared testimony
MAY 6, 2015
The updated policy revises protocols announced last year amid outrage among news organizations over Obama administration tactics. It was released two days after the Justice Department formally abandoned its yearslong efforts to compel a New York Times reporter to testify in the trial of a former CIA officer accused of disclosing classified information. “These revised […]
JAN. 14, 2015
The revised procedures are designed to give news organizations an opportunity to challenge any subpoenas or search warrants in federal court. News organizations are to be informed of an impending document demand unless the attorney general determines that notice would pose “a clear and substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation, risk grave harm […]
FEB. 21, 2014
