Associated Press
Wire Service | Mainstream
 
The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers and broadcast stations in the United States, who both contribute stories to it and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers -- that is, they pay a fee to use AP material but are not members of the cooperative. As of 2005, AP's news is used by 1,700 newspapers, in addition to 5,000 television and radio outlets. Its photo library consists of over 10 million images... More » (SourceWikipedia)
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Audience Very large audience (1M or more) (English)
Formats News Report, Special Report, News Analysis, Poll, Opinion, Interview... | International
Politics Neutral (54%), Right (12%), Not Applicable (12%), Center (10%), Left (8%), Not Sure (4%) (91 reviews)
Authors Pete Yost, Charles J. Hanley, Jae-Soon Chang, Tini Tran, Laurie Kellman, Liz Sidoti, Andrew Taylor, Mike Baker...
Media Wire Service, Online | Publication, Distributor
Owners Cooperative of Newspapers, including Gannett, Tribune, Media News, etc. | Other | Managers: Burl Osborne, Tom Curley
Quality Tags Newsworthy, Clear, Factual, Balanced, Not Balanced, Honest, Impartial...
Story Tags iraq, china, environment, iran, iraq war, bush, global warming, politics, congress, obama...
Research
Publications ASAP News Portal
Related Links About AP - Facts & Figures, Wikipedia Article - Associated Press
Contact Info Contact Web Form, info@ap.org, +1-212-621-1500
Location 450 W. 33rd St., New York, New York, New York, NY 10001 (USA)
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Editorial
Reviewed by Fabrice Florin, Kaizar Campwala, Dwight Rousu, Mike LaBonte, David Patterson, Dale Penn...
Edited by Fabrice Florin, David Fox
Last Edit Aug. 18, 2006
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(Preliminary) Ratings & Stats
Our Rating
average rating is 3.50
3.5 avg. from 2,556 reviews
(434 trust ratings)


Trust
average rating is 3.79

Overall
average rating is 3.46

Accuracy
average rating is 3.93

Balance
average rating is 3.18

Context
average rating is 3.23

Evidence
average rating is 3.46

Fairness
average rating is 3.58

Importance
average rating is 3.87

Information
average rating is 3.64

Sources
average rating is 3.45

Style
average rating is 3.38


Stats
Number of Sources
4

Anonymous Sources
1

Number of Viewpoints
2

Opinions as Facts
1

Number of Stakeholders
3

Stakeholders Quoted
2

Derogatory Words
1

Complimentary Words
0