The Associated Press, or AP, is an
American news agency, and is the world's largest such organization. The AP is a
cooperative owned by its contributing
newspapers,
radio and
television 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.
See more at Wikipedia.org...