The reporter who filed the last dispatch before falling with
Custer at his "last stand" against the Sioux. The Honolulu
bureau chief who looked up from his breakfast table to see
Japanese planes flying low and called San Francisco,
managing to dictate a single paragraph before all
communications to the mainland were cut. The Saigon bureau
chief who served Coca-Cola and pound cake to three North
Vietnamese soldiers before writing the bulletin announcing
the fall of Saigon. These are but a few of the gripping and
dramatic stories reported first by the Associated Press in
the past century and a half.
In How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and
Everything Else, the Associated Press throws open its
archives and invites readers into its news bureaus and out
into the field to witness first hand its groundbreaking
reporting on presidents, elections, wars, civil rights,
trials and crimes, disasters, business, and major sports
events. The book conveys, through personal accounts,
archival materials, interviews, and Pulitzer-Prize-winning
photographs, how the AP became the world's largest news
organization and how it continues to play a vital role in
providing the news to the American and international press.
Breaking News makes an original and significant contribution
to journalism history by shedding light on the nation's
primary newswire service, one that reaches one half of the
world daily and upon which virtually every serious newspaper
and broadcast outlet in the nation has relied for decades.
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