About
The Associated Press (AP) is a not for profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 1846. Its members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. News reports that it distributes to its members and customers are produced in English, Spanish, and Arabic. The AP has earned 56 Pulitzer Prizes, including 34 for photography, since the award was established in 1917. It is also known for publishing the widely used AP Stylebook.
What We Are Looking For
The successful candidate will be a junior, senior or recent graduate who wants to collaborate on stories that expose wrongdoing, injustice and abuses of power; is inspired by the possibilities of modern storytelling and who has a desire to learn how to bring visual and digital storytelling to enliven text- or data-driven investigative work. The candidate should also be able to write clearly and be familiar with AP style.
What We Are Offering
The intern will be working with the AP Global Investigative team for 12 weeks starting June 1. The Associated Press investigative team is one of the oldest in the industry, dating back to 1967. In recent years, reporters on the Associated Press’s investigative team have exposed slavery in the seafood industry, which led to the freeing of more than 2,000 men, and the release of dozens of detainees who were held in secret prisons in Yemen and imprisoned during the country’s brutal civil war. More recently, an AP investigation also found major irregularities in the case against Myon Burrell, a Minnesota teenager sentenced to life in prison for the killing of a 11-year-old girl in 2002. The investigation led to Burrell being released from prison last year after 18 years.
