AP didn’t just expose gaps in a federally mandated early childhood intervention program, we also explored the heartbreaking cost with an intimate, all-formats examination of the tangible impact on children with developmental delays.Read more
for an exclusive and intimate view of India's biggest-ever crackdown on Kashmiri citizens, featuring dozens of unmatched interviews with men on the run as well as government forces deployed to hunt them down. http://bit.ly/2fUW19d
for securing the only interview with a counselor at a Delaware maximum-security prison after she was taken hostage, providing an eyewitness account of a fatal riot. Chase persuaded the counselor to share her story before the final report on the riot was due to be released. https://bit.ly/2LAi7MS
for her harrowing investigation revealing widespread sexual abuses and torture in United Arab Emirates-run prisons in Yemen. https://bit.ly/2tDE0jY
for their exclusive interview with IOC President Thomas Bach, who revealed he had met Kim Jong Un and that Kim had endorsed North Korean participation in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. https://bit.ly/2HcU0iA
for providing evidence that a political operative cooperating with the Mueller probe was involved in the secret funneling of foreign money into the U.S. political system. https://bit.ly/2pS18IR
for her story showing how the deepening secrecy surrounding Ivanka Trump’s supply chains makes it impossible to understand who the company is doing business with in China. http://bit.ly/2yDDlQK
for an exclusive report showing that an Indianapolis suburb has paid an influential congressman's wife $580,000 since 2015 for legal consulting she largely does from the Washington area, an unusually large sum. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/mid...
for confirming that there was no cause for concern around a meeting for Buckingham Palace staff, meaning it was unlikely the queen or Prince Philip was dead or severely ill. http://apne.ws/2r1cb1j
for being first to report that California's latest plan for reducing the state prison population could result in 9,500 inmates going free in four years. http://bit.ly/2mA7ZrV
Remember these images from the Inauguration: The new first couple dancing across a giant presidential seal at a ball? Faces in the crowd cheering or crying in the rain? The instant when Donald Trump took in the scene through an opening door before stepping onto the podium to become the 45th U.S. president?
Credit for those signature images, which appeared across the globe almost as they happened, goes to the skill and artistry of a hand-picked team of AP photographers and photo editors – and also to the cutting-edge, behind-the-scenes efforts of AP technicians working hand-in-hand with them to cover the intensely competitive event.
Their extraordinary work, a stream of 2,000 photos sent from daybreak until well after midnight, earns the Beat of the Week.
The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is one of the most divisive political issues in America. So when word began circulating last summer of potential double-digit premium hikes, Washington health care reporter Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar knew he'd have a major story on his hands. With those price hikes would come renewed fears insurers would leave the program.
Looking ahead to the autumn release of the data, Alonso-Zaldivar and data journalism Meghan Hoyer starting laying the groundwork for AP to offer something distinctive, that no other news organization would have.
for tracking spending on California ballot initiatives and revealing that donors had poured in a record $458 million. https://yhoo.it/2dLk5oK
for reporting exclusively that Texas track coach Mario Sategna, who also coached two Olympic gold medalists in Rio, is under an ethics investigation by the university. http://apne.ws/2enNAhX
or turning a discovery inside one of his persistent state-government FOIA requests into an AP Exclusive: The story showed that Illinois, despite serious financial problems, is the worst state at recovering overpaid unemployment benefits, to the tune of more than $700 million. http://trib.in/2dVANFU
for their latest entry in a series on the phenomenon of honor killings. http://apne.ws/2dNed1F
for one of the first published interviews that Warren Beatty has given in years on the occasion of his new Howard Hughes biopic, "The Rules Don't Apply."
http://bayareane.ws/2cFXsWA
for his report revealing that the GOP nominee for governor had exaggerated his humanitarian work before entering politics. http://bit.ly/2bG4gCN
for their aggressive all-formats coverage of the historic flooding in Louisiana, which drove the news cycle each day. http://apne.ws/2bw9AZ4
The scene was nightmarish. Women and girls fleeing fighting in South Sudan had taken refuge in a United Nations camp. As fighting subsided, they ventured out in search of food, but just outside the camp, they were dragged off by soldiers and raped. Two died of their injuries. At least one attack was said to have occurred within sight of U.N. peacekeepers.
The details in Jason Patinkin’s only-on-AP story could not have been reported without getting into the camp – but the U.N. at first blocked journalists from entering. Demanding access along with other journalists – and winning – in the midst of already challenging coverage allowed Patinkin to produce an exclusive that prompted outrage around the world. It earns Beat of the Week.
