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By 2016, news collected by the AP was published and republished by more than 1,300 newspapers and broadcasters,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf|title=2016 Consolidated Financial Statements|date=April 5, 2017|website=Associated Press|access-date=March 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180304172429/https://www.ap.org/about/annual-report/2016/AssociatedPress_2016FinancialStatements.pdf|archive-date=March 4, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The AP operates 248 [[news bureau]]s in 99 countries, and publishes in English, Spanish, and Arabic.<ref name=bythenumbers2019/> It also operates the AP Radio Network, which provides twice hourly newscasts and daily sportscasts for broadcast and satellite radio and television stations. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative. As part of their cooperative agreement with the AP, most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the AP to distribute their [[local news]] reports. The AP traditionally employed the "[[inverted pyramid (journalism)|inverted pyramid]]" formula for writing, a method that enables news outlets to edit a story to fit its available publication area without losing the story's essentials, although in 2007, then-AP President [[Tom Curley]] called the practice "dead".<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 2, 2007 |title=Associated Press CEO: "The Inverted Pyramid Is Dead" |url=https://www.adweek.com/digital/associated-press-ceo-the-inverted-pyramid-is-dead/ |journal=Adweek |url-access=subscription |access-date=February 23, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022065957/https://www.adweek.com/digital/associated-press-ceo-the-inverted-pyramid-is-dead/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2008, the AP sent numerous [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act|DMCA]] take down demands and threatened legal action against several [[blog]]s. The AP contended that the internet blogs were violating the AP's [[copyright]] by linking to AP material and using headlines and short summaries in those links. Many bloggers and experts noted that the use of the AP news fell squarely under commonly accepted internet practices and within [[fair use|fair-use]] standards.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |title = AP's Fair Use Challenge (Harvard Law) |work = Berkman Center for Internet and Society |date = 2008-06-17 |access-date = 2014-06-04 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110512044752/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4381 |archive-date = 2011-05-12 |url-status = dead }}</ref> Others noted and demonstrated that the AP routinely takes similar excerpts from other sources, often without attribution or licenses. The AP responded that it was defining standards regarding citations of AP news.<ref>{{cite news |title = The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | quote= The Associated Press...said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright. | work =[[The New York Times]]| date = June 16, 2008 |access-date=2009-04-09 |first=Saul |last=Hansell| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090409031736/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap.html | archive-date= 9 April 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>

On September 29, 2000, the first day of the [[Second Intifada]], the AP sent out of a photograph of a badly bloodied young man behind whom a police officer could be seen with a baton raised in a menacing fashion; a gas station with Hebrew lettering could also be seen in the background.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|title=The pictures that are worth more than 1000 words|url=https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220602/https://www.jpost.com/features/front-lines/the-pictures-that-are-worth-more-than-1000-words|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|title=This Week in Israeli History: Tuvia Grossman – The Bloodied "Palestinian," Bar Giora and Menachem Ussishkin|url=https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|access-date=September 30, 2021|work=The Jerusalem Post|archive-date=September 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210930220601/https://www.jpost.com/blogs/my-nation-lives/this-week-in-israeli-history-tuvia-grossman-the-bloodied-palestinian-bar-giora-and-menachem-ussishkin-419484|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|last=Markl|first=Florian|title="'Israel Threatens to Defend Itself': The Depiction of Israel in the Media". In Confronting Antisemitism through the Ages: A Historical Perspective (eds. Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Florian Markl)|publisher=De Gruyter|year=2021|location=Berlin, Boston|pages=473–474}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite book|last=Beeson|first=Patrick|title="Photojournalism." In "Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It."|publisher=McFarland & Co|year=2007|pages=184, 190}}</ref> The AP labelled it with the caption "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount", and the picture and caption were subsequently published in several major American newspapers, including the [[The New York Times|New York Times]] and the [[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]].<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> In reality, the injured man in the photograph was a Jewish yeshiva student from Chicago named [[Tuvia Grossman]], and the police officer, a Druze named Gidon Tzefadi, was protecting Grossman from a Palestinian mob who had clubbed, stoned, and stabbed Grossman.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /> There are also no gas stations with Hebrew lettering on the Temple Mount.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />

In May 2021, the AP said it would launch a [https://apnews.com/article/social-media-media-business-arts-and-entertainment-55cee73bd1da80790ad4aacf3cb2e339 review of its social media policies] after questions were raised about the firing of a journalist who expressed pro-Palestinian views on social media. The announcement came after some AP journalists signed a letter expressing concern over the termination of former news associate Emily Wilder, whom the AP said committed multiple violations of the company's [[social media policy]].  Wilder was the target of a right-wing online harassment campaign for her activism while at Stanford University. The AP has said that Wilder's previous activism played no role in her termination.<ref>{{Citation |title=AP vice president speaks out on Emily Wilder firing |date=May 30, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |publisher=[[CNN Reliable Sources]] |access-date=June 12, 2022 |archive-date=March 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220328173028/https://www.cnn.com/videos/media/2021/05/30/associated-press-managing-editor-brian-carovillano-intv-emily-wilder-firing-stelter-rs-vpx.cnn |url-status=live }}</ref>