Using 80 years of poll data, AP has released a list of the top 100 football programs of the poll era. Rankings for AP’s first all-time 100 were determined by calculating poll appearan
ces, No. 1 rankings and championships won.
Read more: http://collegefootball.ap.org/top-100
To help you with your planning ahead of the college football season, we will have the following stories, photos and more in coming weeks, anchored by a special project surrounding the Top 25 poll, team and Power Five conference previews as well as two weekends of feature stories. This digest is subject to change and will be updated throughout the month of August.
For questions, please call 212-621-1630 or email Ed Montes (emontes@ap.org) and Dave Zelio (dzelio@ap.org). All times Eastern.
DIGITAL NEWS EXPERIENCE
All the stories in this advisory as well as exclusive blog content, a weekly podcast and videos will be available through the College Football Digital News Experience, which is a fully curated digital presentation focused entirely on AP’s college football coverage and anchored around the marquee AP Top 25 poll. The site, which is responsive to all devices, is available for free and even pays a revenue share to participating sites. The DNE allows for local customization of the site logo, navigation bar, highlighted teams and other features, including embeddable widgets around the poll and Latest News. Some examples: http://collegefootball.ap.org/lufkindailynews and http://collegefootball.ap.org/wvgazette. Contact your local sales representative or Barry Bedlan at bbedlan@ap.org to take advantage of this free digital offering.
TOP 25 POLL
The 2016 preseason AP Top 25 will be released on Sunday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m. The weekly poll will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 6, and will then be sent every Sunday at 2 p.m. through the regular season. The final poll will be sent roughly an hour after the national championship game the evening of Monday, Jan. 9, in Tampa, Florida.
AP SPORTS EXTRA – PRESEASON POLL PAGE
A paginated look at the preseason AP Top 25 poll will be available shortly after the poll is released on Aug. 21. The AP Sports Extra pages are available in full broadsheet, half broadsheet and tabloid size (perfect for your preseason football tab). They will include space for local advertising or content. The pages will focus on the 25 teams selected by AP poll voters with emphasis on those at the very top. The pages are available at no charge to all AP Sports subscribers. Contact your local sales representative or Barry Bedlan at bbedlan@ap.org for more information.
ONLY ON AP
For the first time, AP has tabulated every single one of its weekly college football polls since the first was released 80 years ago. That research has been used to determine an all-time rankings list and other stories, including an eight-part series looking at the top teams of each decade.
FBC–AP POLL AT 80
To look back, all the way back, to the first Top 25 college football poll is to take a walk through history. The great teams at Notre Dame and Army, at Oklahoma and Alabama, the coaching greats like Bud Wilkinson and Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno, Lou Holtz and Nick Saban. For the first time, The Associated Press has sorted through all those polls _ all 1,103 of them _ to determine the top 100 programs of all time after eight decades of arguing who’s the best. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 800 words, photos on Aug. 2 at 2 p.m.
With:
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL -THE TOP 100-LIST
The Top 100 college football teams of all time as determined by The Associated Press Top 25. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 2,500 words. Capsules on the best 25 teams, then a list of the remaining 75 on Aug. 2 at 2 p.m. Will be featured on special page of the College Football DNE.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL -THE NO. 1s-LIST
All 44 teams ranked No. 1 at least once over the 80 years, with capsules that include the overall top team for each school. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 2,000 words, photos on Aug. 4.
Also:
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1930s-40s
The Associated Press college football poll was created to try to answer the simplest yet most divisive question in sports: Who’s better? The poll helped give a regional sport more of a national scope. The poll helped define the Army-Notre Dame rivalry in the 1940s and was part of their games becoming major events. By Richard Rosenblatt. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 14.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1950s
By the 1950s, college football’s power has drifted away from the elite Eastern schools and into the Midwest. Bud Wilkinson’s Oklahoma dynasty dominated the polls as it set a record winning streak that still stands. By College Football Writer Eric Olson. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 15.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1960s
The focus on the national championship race and the polls reached new heights in the 1960s, with a peak in 1966 when the matchup of No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Michigan State late in the season ended in a famous 10-10 tie. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 16.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1970s
Coaching icons dominated the AP poll during the 1970s with Bear Bryant at Alabama, Joe Paterno at Penn State, Woody Hayes at Ohio State, Bo Schembechler at Michigan, Barry Switzer at Oklahoma and Tom Osborne at Nebraska. Their matchups would often help determine No. 1. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 17.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1980s
A new dynasty emerges at Miami, where the brash Hurricanes upend the established Midwestern powers, with pro-style offenses and speedy defenses that smother option football. It takes a little while for AP poll voters to catch up to the power shift, but when they do, Miami becomes a fixture. By Tim Reynolds. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 22.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-1990s
Controversial championships, sometimes with the AP poll breaking one way and the coaches’ poll going another, prompt the bowls and conferences to start working toward a more definitive way to determine the national title. Eventually, it becomes the BCS. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 23.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-2000s
The first half of the decade is dominated by USC’s unprecedented run at No. 1, but then the SEC takes over. The overlap produces the last split national champion with the Trojans taking the AP title and LSU winning the BCS. The constant controversy leads to the AP asking out of the BCS process. By David Brandt. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 24.
FBC–ALL-TIME AP POLL-2010s
A new power emerges in Oregon, a rarity for college football. But an old one in Alabama dominates as Nick Saban reigns. AP voters are asked to judge a changing brand of football that is played fast and furious and often without a lot of defense. By John Zenor UPCOMING: 700 words, photos on Aug. 25.
CONFERENCE AND TEAM PREVIEWS
Each of the following will move in a ‘things to watch’ chunky text format of approximately 700 words, with photos.
Team previews:
All previews for Power Five conference schools, BYU, Notre Dame and the service academies will move on Aug. 12.
Conference previews:
Aug 8: SEC, Pac-12
Aug. 9: Big Ten, Atlantic Coast
Aug 11: Big 12, Mountain West
Aug. 12: American Athletic, Sun Belt, Conference USA, Mid-American
SHAREABLE CONTENT
Every Wednesday until the regular season, AP will offer a FBC–PICK SIX story from July 13 until Aug. 31.
_ FBC–Pick Six-SEC-Pivotal Players. SENT: 700 words, photos on July 13.
_ FBC–Pick Six-Pac-12-Pivotal-Players. SENT: 700 words, photos on July 20.
_ FBC–Pick Six-Big 12-Pivotal Players. SENT: 700 words, photos on July 27.
PLAYOFF PULSE PODCAST
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PREVIEW PACKAGE FOR AUG. 6-7 WEEKEND
FBC–SEC SCHEDULING
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. _ The SEC gets plenty of criticism each year for essentially taking a week off in November to play some scuffling teams. It makes up for it with a high-powered opening lineup that is particularly noteworthy this year, including Alabama-USC, Ole Miss-Florida State, Auburn-Clemson, Texas A&M-UCLA and LSU-Wisconsin. Does frontloading the nonconference schedule help the SEC impress the playoff committee and boost its national perception? By Steve Megargee. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by noon Aug. 5.
FBC–HARBAUGH’S NEXT ACT
ANN ARBOR, Mich. _ He’s slept at recruit’s houses, had his wife mock his $8 khakis and taken his team on the road for camp, rankling the SEC and forcing the NCAA to take a stand. There may be no louder voice in college football. But what’s happening behind the scenes makes Harbaugh much more than a meme. By Larry Lage. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by noon Aug. 5.
FBC–HEISMAN HYPE
Leonard Fournette. Christian McCaffrey. Deshaun Watson. Baker Mayfield. Four of the top six vote-getters from last year’s Heisman race are back, giving this fall’s competition for college football’s top honor plenty of intrigue. By David Brandt. UPCOMING: 800 words by noon Aug. 6.
FBC–HELTON’S HOLLYWOOD
LOS ANGELES _ Clay Helton, USC coach, is not Hollywood. The longtime assistant was a surprising choice to go from interim coach to simply coach of a program that is one of college football’s crown jewels but has been unable to recapture its greatness under former Pete Carroll assistants, Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian. The hope is that Helton can provide stability if not flash, but he also starts the season with a two-game losing streak and an opener against defending national champion Alabama. By Greg Beacham. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by noon Aug. 7.
PREVIEW PACKAGE FOR AUG. 13-14 WEEKEND
FBC–GOING INDEPENDENT
UMass is going it alone this season, its first as a football independent since essentially being booted out of the Mid-American Conference. New Mexico State and Idaho have faced similar decisions recently, too _ to go independent and stay in the Bowl Subdivision or drop to the FCS. New Mexico State is staying. Idaho will be going. When you aren’t Notre Dame, there are a lot of pros and cons to independence. By College Football Writer Ralph D. Russo. UPCOMING: 780 words, photos by 5 a.m. Aug. 13.
FBC–YEAR OF THE RUNNING BACK
It’s another year of the running back in college football. LSU’s Leonard Fournette, Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey, Oregon’s Royce Freeman and Florida State’s Dalvin Cook all are back after rushing for over 1,800 yards last season. The talent at running back is so loaded that guys such as Tennessee’s Jalen Hurd and North Carolina’s Elijah Hood _ who would be boldface names in any other year _ are relatively under the radar. By Steve Megargee. UPCOMING: 700 words, photos by noon Aug. 13.
FBC–CHASING BEAR
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. _ Nick Saban is one national title away from matching Bear Bryant’s record and, with his 65th birthday coming up on Halloween, shows no signs of slowing down. By John Zenor. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos. By noon Aug. 14.
FBC–RUGBY-STYLE TACKLING
LINCOLN, Neb. _ Rugby-style tackling, which positions the defender’s head to the side of the ball-carrier rather than straight-on, is growing in popularity in a sport beleaguered by concussion concerns. The Seattle Seahawks were the first team to teach the technique, with Ohio State following last season. Nebraska, among others, is the latest program coaching rugby-style technique. By College Football Writer Eric Olson. UPCOMING: 750 words, photos by noon Aug. 14.
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BOX – Boxing
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TAE – Taekwondo
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TRI – Triathlon
VOL – Volleyball
WPO – Water Polo
WEI – Weightlifting
WRE –Wrestling
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The Associated Press has begun providing automated recaps of Minor League Baseball games.
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erage of the 142 MLB-affiliated teams will be made possible through an arrangement with MLB Advanced Media, which is providing the statistical data, and Automated Insights, which developed the technology that will be used to generate the recaps. AP has been using the same technology for the past two years to automate more than 3,000 stories about U.S. corporate earnings each quarter.
AP’s baseball editors and reporters have worked closely with Automated Insights to configure its software to conform to AP standards in baseball coverage.
The recaps, which will average about 150 to 225 words, will only be available to AP Sports subscribers, which means those entitled to the following products in WebFeeds: 100502 – Member Choice Sports Option or 100554 – Member Choice Z Sports Option.
The recaps will be found under the BBM slug (i.e. BC-BBM_Sounds-Storm Chasers) or, in AP delivery systems, by using the product ID code 45437 in AP delivery systems. (In AP Exchange, search productid=45437; in AP Newsroom, search .) If your newspaper isn’t already set up to get the full AP Sports feed in your content management system, your CMS manager will need to go to AP Webfeeds Manager and select the product “Automated Insights – Minor League Baseball” for ingestion.
The recaps will be provided for all games involving MLB-affiliated Triple-A, Double-A and Class A teams. This includes 142 teams that play in the following leagues: Pacific Coast, International, Eastern, Southern, Texas, California, Carolina, Florida State, Midwest, South Atlantic, New York-Penn, and Northwest. This means we’ll have recaps from at least one team in nearly every continental state. Over the course of the next year and the varying league seasons, we’ll be able to deliver nearly 10,000 game recaps.
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We’ve added a Featured Category on the Home Page of AP Newsroom, Divided America.
This should make it easier for members who have transitioned to Newsroom from AP Exchange to keep track of the many stories and linked media associated with this yearlong project. 
In a Q&A, Vice President for U.S. News Brian Carovillano describes how the “Divided America” series came about and comments on some of its key findings.
Read more:
https://blog.ap.org/behind-the-news/an-inside-look-at-divided-america
AP Sports is moving an Olympics preview coverage advisory on the wire that it plans to start updating twice per week, typically each Tuesday and Friday.
Among newspapers, most of the content will only be available to AP Sports subscribers, with highlights available to non-sports subscribers.
The advisory slug is: BC-OLY–Olympic Coverage,Advisory
The next installment in The Associated Press’ Divided America series includes a story package about the under-representation of minorities in statehouses and Congress. The story, BC-US—Divided America-Missing Minorities, comes with several spreadsheets for customers to use for their own localizations.
The spreadsheets include the racial and ethnic breakdown by state and the percentage of seats those minorities hold in state legislatures and Congress. Racial and ethnic breakdowns also are presented for each state house, state senate and congressional district.
The spreadsheets and a detailed readme file explaining the data can be accessed at the following link:
http://data.ap.org/projects/2016/divided-america/missing-minorities/index.html
The stories described below are moving in advance Thursday, June 9, for immediate use at 12:01 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 16.
For questions about the BC-US—Divided America-Missing Minorities package, contact AP State Government Team Editor Tom Verdin at taverdin@ap.org.
AP reporter David Lieb at dlieb@ap.org and data journalist Angeliki Kastanis at akastanis@ap.org are available to answer specific questions about the data sets.
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DIVIDED AMERICA-MISSING MINORITIES
UNDATED _ As Virginia’s only Latino state lawmaker, Alfonso Lopez made it his first order of business to push for a law granting in-state college tuition to immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since childhood. The bill failed. Again and again. “If we had a more diverse (legislature) and more Latinos in the House of Delegates,” he says, “I don’t think it would be as difficult.” But truly diverse legislatures are a rarity across the United States. While minorities have made some political gains, they remain severely underrepresented in Congress and nearly every state legislature, according to an analysis of demographic data by The Associated Press. The lack of political representation can carry real-life consequences. When the people elected don’t look, think, talk or act like the people they represent, it can deepen divisions that naturally exist in the U.S. By David Lieb. Moving in advance for use at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, and thereafter. 2,100 words, photos, interactive. An abridged version will also move.
With:
DIVIDED AMERICA-MISSING MINORITIES-HIGHLIGHTS, summary highlights from an AP demographic analysis. 600 words.
With:
DIVIDED AMERICA-MISSING MINORITIES-REDISTRICTING
Momentum appears to be building to pare back the role of partisan politics in the way districts are drawn.
With:
DIVIDED AMERICA-REDISTRICTING-GLANCE, a look at how legislative redistricting is done in every state.
The AP Sports Extra pages previewing this weekend’s U.S. Open golf tournament are now available in AP Exchange. The tournament starts Thursday, so the pages have a shelf life of six days.
AP Sports Extra pages are paginated presentations provided at no charge to newspapers that take AP Sports. The page is available in three sizes: full broadsheet, half broadsheet, and tabloid.
Each page also includes space for local advertising and/or local content. AP member newspapers have sold sponsorships around these pages to local golf courses, golf cart dealers, men’s apparel stores, banks and financial advisers.
You can download the pages from your newspaper’s AP Exchange account: Select the Graphics tab at the top of the home screen, and choose Sports Extra in the left navigation, under Sports, or enter “Sports Extra” into the keyword search box.
AP Sports Extra is produced throughout the year, previewing major sporting events. The next edition will preview the British Open golf tournament, July 14-17. The pages will be posted no later than the afternoon of Monday, July 11, but possibly sooner.
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The 2016 AP Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law includes nearly 250 new or revised entries and the first interior page redesign in decades.
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The subscription-based AP Stylebook Online is updated throughout the year with the new and revised entries. It includes all Stylebook listings, plus an Ask the Editor feature with more than twice as many entries as the book itself, a pronunciation guide with phonetic spellings and audio pronouncers, and topical style guides about news events. Users can add their own entries, make notes and get notifications throughout the year when AP’s editors add or update listings.
The new print edition and digital subscriptions can be ordered online at www.apstylebook.com.
The Associated Press is seeking an Ohio News Editor, based in Columbus, to lead a team of journalists in developing compelling breaking news coverage and generating distinctive, multi-format enterprise from Ohio.
The news editor is responsible for working with journalists in Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland and the capital to cover and uncover news of interest in the state, across the nation, and around the world.
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editorial team, discovers high-impact stories and creates new types of content for AP customers.
The AP is releasing a new series in advance of the November presidential election, which examines the differences that separate us as a country and looks at whether we are still one nation, indivisible, or have become a Divided America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydti5M06s3o
The project, including content designed for mobile and social use, will unfold in text, video, graphics, and visual and immersive interactive journalism. Some pieces will include data on communities across the United States, offering your editors and reporters opportunities to produce their own local stories.
The AP will make available all of the series stories to all member publications, regardless of service level (abridged and unabridged, sidebars, etc., throughout the series (we expect it to run into September).
The first stories, listed below, will move June 2 for use after 12:01 a.m. Thursday, June 9. In subsequent installments we will explore a number of other topics such as the influence of Hispanic and millennial voters, the urban/rural divide and the role of media in shaping our divided electorate.
In the coming weeks, we will share additional details on conference calls discussing data and localization opportunities. For questions about the project, contact Brian Carovillano at bcarovillano@ap.org or the AP’s Nerve Center at nervecentermanagers@ap.org.
The FBI’s training manual says its yearly collection of hate crimes data results in “greater awareness and understanding of the true dimensions of the problem nationwide.” But a state-by-state analysis by The Associated Press finds that the picture presented in the FBI’s official tally is far from complete.
The AP analysis has identified roughly 2,800 city and county law enforcement agencies across the country that have not filed a single hate crime report with the FBI during the past six years, which represents 17 percent of all such agencies nationwide. The analysis also found that thousands of other departments filed reports only sporadically.
Why does it matter? A better accounting of hate crimes, proponents say, would not only increase awareness but also force state and federal lawmakers to dedicate more money and resources to law enforcement training and community outreach.
A multimedia package that includes embargoed data for customer localizations will move for use on Sunday, June 5. The AP has packaged its information into three spreadsheets. They include: the list of city and county law enforcement agencies by state that filed no hate crime reports with the FBI during the time period studied; the total number and percentage of agencies per state that did not file; and the larger universe showing all agencies that filed inconsistently during the time period, with yearly details.
The Counting Hate package also will include video and a graphic. The stories will move on an embargoed basis on Tuesday, May 31, and then for immediate use at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, June 5.
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COUNTING HATE
BOGALUSA, La. _ An investigation by The Associated Press has identified almost 2,800 city police and county sheriff’s departments across the country that have not filed a single hate crime report to the FBI during the past six years _ about 17 percent of all city and county law enforcement agencies nationwide. Thousands of others file those reports only sporadically. Advocates worry that the lack of a comprehensive annual accounting allows society to overlook the extent of racism and other bias at a time of heightened racial, religious and ethnic tensions. By Christina A. Cassidy. UPCOMING: 2,800 words. Photos. Video. Graphic. An abridged version also is moving.
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_ BC-US–Counting Hate-Q&A, questions and answers about the federal reporting system and the local law enforcement agencies that are not filing the reports. UPCOMING: 570 words.
_ BC-US–County Hate-Sheriffs, the FBI encourages all local law enforcement agencies with sworn officers who have arrest powers to file hate crime reports. That applies to county sheriff’s offices and departments, even though their responsibilities vary from state to state. UPCOMING: 230 words.
COUNTING HATE-METRO ATLANTA
ATLANTA _ Atlanta and its suburbs represent one of the most densely populated and diverse regions of the country, where law enforcement agencies might be expected to file reports regularly with the FBI. Yet that doesn’t happen when it comes to hate crimes. While some of the agencies in the metropolitan area are rigorous in filing annual hate crime reports with the FBI, others are not, filing in some years but not others. The sporadic nature of hate crime reporting among law enforcement agencies in a metropolitan area of 5.5 million people underscores the difficulties the FBI faces in trying to draw a comprehensive picture of hate crimes across the U.S. By Christina A. Cassidy. UPCOMING: 850 words. Photos.
For questions about the project, contact AP State Government Editor Tom Verdin at taverdin@ap.org. For specific questions about the data, contact AP data journalist Michelle Minkoff at mminkoff@p.org.
In this post, the co-founder and CEO of NewsWhip explains how increasing amounts of information being shared via social is making it more difficult for companies to understand how their target audiences are communicating.
Here’s a list of the winners and judges’ comments: http://discover.a
p.org/contests/michigan
To see tweets from the day’s events, go to #miapme2016.
Winners in the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors contest were announced on Sunday, May 15, in Columbus. 
Here’s a list of the winners and judges’ comments: http://discover.ap.org/contests/ohio
To see tweets from the day’s events, go to #ohapme2016.
, AP’s manager of corporate strategy, writes how artificial intelligence can help journalists automat
ically adapt stories to the personalities, moods and locations of their readers.
By PHILIP BUMP The Washington Post
In the southeastern corner of Indiana, tucked against the Ohio River, is Ohio County. About 6,000 people live there, making it the smallest county in the state. And this evening, as votes are tallied, there will be a stringer from the Associated Press there waiting to relay totals back to the wire service — and then on to the rest of us.
As election results came in last Tuesday, fans of Bernie Sanders noticed that his totals in Sussex County, Del., spiked briefly before reverting back to a lower number. The spike was spotted a
Rehill
t the websites of The Post and the Guardian by people looking for evidence voter fraud, and so, despite the data being wrong for only two minutes, the error was quickly passed around as evidence of the fix being in for Hillary Clinton. (It wasn’t. She won Delaware by 20 points, picking up slightly more of its relatively few delegates.)
It made us wonder, though, how the Associated Press — which provides the data for The Post’s election night graphics — got numbers from Sussex County back to our screens. The answer, as you might have guessed, is by sending a lot of people out to a lot of counties to relay vote totals as they become available.
The AP has a FAQ on the topic, in fact, but it’s oriented around a presidential general election. Curious how it worked for primaries, we reached out by email to Don Rehill, the AP’s director of election tabulations and research.
“We will have a stringer at every county tonight,” Rehill explained, “reporting cumulative vote results to one of our vote entry centers.” For larger counties, like Marion County (home to Indianapolis), the AP will also pipe in automatic vote count feeds. In smaller counties and for statewide totals, staff will also manually pull numbers from county websites.
Those vote counts are sent to vote entry centers by phone, fax or email before being aggregated into overall numbers. (Why “centers,” plural? In case one loses power or otherwise goes offline.) For the most part, the data is transmitted by phone for the simple reason that it requires that another person be involved in gathering — and assessing — the data. “Stringers do generally call by phone into our vote center,” Rehill wrote, “and a trained vote entry operator, supervised by a floor/state supervisor, walks them through the vote entry dialogue. We have experimented with other mechanisms but find that, especially when a stringer is reporting a lot of races/candidates, mobile apps or interactive voice response systems are somewhat limited and error rates increase.”
The AP has other ways of weeding out errors, too. Rehill explained some of the checks that are in place:
Part of the AP’s preparations mandates knowing the terrain in advance, in part because it also makes election outcome calls that other places rely on. Tonight, they’ll be looking at the big counties, of course, Rehill said, as well as counties with large universities or big manufacturing bases, like Elkhart. Counties that shifted their presidential general election vote between 2008 and 2012, he said, might offer some insight into how independents are voting in the state’s open primary.
Sure, mistakes still happen. But there’s another reason the AP sends people out to all of these locations: To have reporters on the scene to ask questions about how voting is going and to question any oddities. In other words, the Associated Press runs a voter-fraud early warning system.
If someone crosses the river and shows up in Ohio County with 14,000 extra votes for John Kasich, the AP reporter on the scene will be one of the first to know about it.
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Andrew Welsh-Huggins, AP’s legal affairs writer based in Columbus, has been named interim news editor for the cooperative’s Ohio operations.Welsh-Huggins succeeds Deb Martin, who retired after nearly 25 years with AP, 12 of them as news editor.
Welsh-Huggins joined AP in 1998 as a reporter. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter at The (Youngstown) Vindicator and The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana. He is the author of the Andy Hayes mystery series, set in Columbus and featuring an ex-Ohio State quarterback turned private eye. He holds a Master’s Degree from Brown University and a B.A. in Classics and Classical Languages, Literature and Linguistics from Kenyon College.
Martin joined AP in Columbus in 1991 and was day supervisor before being promoted to news editor in 2004. Prior to joining AP, she worked nearly 16 years at The Marion Star where she was assistant managing editor, city editor, wire editor and reporter. She is a graduate of Heidelberg University in Tiffin.
Welsh-Huggins can be reached at awelsh@ap.org or 614-885-2727.
In this post, a research scientist from the MIT Media Lab explains how a data analytics machine mines A
P’s news archives to open a window into the intersection of news and social media.
You may have missed our webinar on using news data to power your research. Not to worry! You can listen to a recording of the webinar and learn more about:
Rules governing content licensing, fair use and social media reuse are evolving and not staying abreast can bring harsh consequences.
Please join us for next DefinitiveSource webinar “Content Rights: Protecting Yourself and Your Organization.” AP leaders will discuss legal issues surrounding content licensing and how your newsroom can better protect itself in the digital space.
What:
AP DefinitiveSource Webcast Series:
“Content Rights: Protecting Yourself and Your Organization”
Who:
Eric Carvin, AP Social Media Editor
Dawn Cohen, AP Director of Photo Products
Brian Barrett, AP Corporate Counsel
When:
Wednesday, May 25, 2 – 3 p.m. EDT, including a brief Q&A
Where:
On your computer, at your desk. Click here to register.
AP product director Ken Romano describes how the increasing pace of industry changes has altered his team’s approach to bringing products to market.
A quarterback most likely will be selected as the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, but the question is who? California’s Jared Goff or North Dakota State’s Carson Wentz?
Football fans will be watching and you can help set the stage with the latest AP Sports Extra pages now available in AP Exchange.
AP-member newspapers have sold sponsorships around these pages to local car dealers, banks, sports bars and other merchants.
The pages are now available for your use through the start of the NFL Draft on Thursday, April 28.
AP Sports Extra pages are paginated presentations provided at no charge to newspapers that take AP Sports.
The page is available in three sizes: full broadsheet, half broadsheet, and tabloid. Each page also includes space for local advertising and/or local content.
You can download the pages from your newspaper’s AP Exchange account: Select the Graphics tab at the top of the home screen, and choose Sports Extra in the left navigation, under Sports, or enter “Sports Extra” into the keyword search box.
AP Sports Extra is produced throughout the year, previewing major sporting events. The next edition will preview the USGA US Open golf tournament, June 16-19. The pages will be posted no later than the afternoon of Monday, June 13, but possibly sooner.
For more information and a full schedule of AP Sports Extra pages, see AP Sports Extra.
AP is preparing to change providers for many of its sports agate files starting May 1. Test files for some of the transitioned agate files will be available for your review via email in the coming week.
If you are interested in receiving, contact Customer Support at 877-836-9477 or apcustomersupport@ap.org. You will need to provide what format you currently get AP sports agate files.
While the effective change date is May 1, some files will be switched over before then. Some of the files not affected by the transition include TV SportsWatch, Transactions, Sports Odds and Horse Racing agate.
Also, as part of the transition, the following files will no longer be available after April 30:
This transition is part of an ongoing effort to improve AP Sports offerings and likely will not be noticeable to most agate users. However, during the early weeks of the transition, it is possible some agate fixtures could be delayed and/or the formatting could be slightly different. We don’t anticipate this, but wanted you and your systems to be prepared for that possibility.
Most items will look the same or similar. We will provide additional details on any anticipated changes or fixture delays. Our goal is to make this transition as transparent as possible and communicate regularly through this advisory.
If you experience any issues, please immediately contact Customer Support at 877-836-9477 or apcustomersupport@ap.org.
AP also has been in communication with the following CMS providers about the AP sports agate transition and will be working with them to test the new files in the coming week:
AP has taken an equity stake in SAM, the online social media search, curation and storytelling platform for newsrooms. The investment capital will be used to grow the team and accelerate SAM’s rapidly growing customer base.
Newsrooms powered by SAM find better social content faster, cura
te and collaborate more efficiently, and publish rich social media driven stories online and on-air.
“SAM is the clear front-runner in the exploding social newsgathering and curation space,” said Jim Kennedy, SVP of Strategy and Enterprise Development for AP. “Our team of social experts here at the AP know the tool landscape well, and their trust in SAM led to our investment. SAM’s ability, as a startup, to build a world-class product and power several of the world’s largest newsrooms is a sign of even greater things to come.”
Read more: http://yhoo.it/25NiQwc
During a panel at the American Copy Editors Society national conference in Portland, Oregon, it was announced that the 2016 AP Stylebook will lowercase the words ‘internet’ and ‘web.’ The 201
6 AP Stylebook will include more than 240 new and modified entries, some of which have already been released to AP Stylebook Online subscribers.
Read more: http://bit.ly/1PQM6Gu
The New York Times explains how it uses AP’s elections services to report live elections updates, vote counts and winners of primary races. Read more: http://nyti.ms/1SfKacl
The world’s top golfers will gather at April 7-10 at the Augusta National Golf Club for the 80th Masters, and your newspaper can attract new advertising around this special event by using one of the latest AP Sports Extra pages.
AP-member newspapers have sold sponsorships around these pages t
o local golf cart and equipment dealers, men’s clothing retailers and other merchants.
The pages are now available for your use through the start of the tournament on Thursday, April 7.
AP Sports Extra pages are paginated presentations provided at no charge to newspapers that take AP Sports.
The page is available in three sizes: full broadsheet, half broadsheet, and tabloid. Each page also includes space for local advertising and/or local content.
You can download the pages from your newspaper’s AP Exchange account: Select the Graphics tab at the top of the home screen, and choose Sports Extra in the left navigation, under Sports, or enter “Sports Extra” into the keyword search box.
AP Sports Extra is produced throughout the year, previewing major sporting events. The next edition will preview the NFL Draft on April 28-30. Those pages will be posted no later than Monday, April 25.
For more information and a full schedule of AP Sports Extra pages, see: AP Sports Extra.
Retired Ohio AP sports editor Rusty Miller, left, was inducted into the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame by Bob Goldring, Associate Commissioner for Operations for the Ohio High School Athletic Association on March 19 in Columbus.
(AP Photo/Phil Long)
Also inducted were Ken Barhorst, sports editor of the Sidney (OH) Daily News and David Schutte, retired sports writer for The Cincinnati Post and The Cincinnati Enquirer. They joined 56 prep sports writers and editors enshrined in the OPSWA Hall of Fame.
Miller was the AP’s sports editor in Ohio for 30 years until his retirement in 2015. During his tenure, he oversaw the weekly AP prep and college football and basketball polls in the state, helped select the AP All-Ohio teams and initiated the Ohio Mr. Football, Mr. Basketball and Ms. Basketball awards.
Virtual reality is journalism’s next frontier. While the goal of sharing stories has remained the same for journalists, the advancement of technology is allowing them to do so in new ways. One of the most exciting prospects is virtual reality, which allows users to immerse themselves in locations they could previously only interact  with in 2-D.
Virtual reality has the potential to become an impactful storytelling tool, much like motion pictures did many years ago. Our Definitive Source call will cover technology and business considerations, including market size, distribution and monetization, as well as examples of where virtual reality has been used in journalism. Will virtual reality continue to increase its impact on the news industry as it becomes more affordable for newsrooms to produce? Please join us for our next Definitive Source webcast: Virtual Reality for Today’s Newsrooms. What: Who: When: Where: Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone from your staff who might be interested in this topic. And make sure to read a behind-the-scenes look at how we produced our newest virtual reality film, “The Second Line.” |
Register today for the Michigan Associated Press Media Editor’s Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet at The Crowne Plaza Lansing West on Sunday, May 22.
We’ll have breakfast at 10 a.
m. to update you on the latest AP initiatives and to take your questions, followed by a cash bar and lunch at 11:30 a.m. After lunch, we’ll announce the winners of the General Excellence, Outstanding News Operation, hand out plaques to the winners of the other categories, and introduce the 2016-17 Michigan APME board of directors.
Please complete your online registration here by Wednesday, May 11. Directions and the registration information are on our website. Please contact the hotel directly for rates and reservations.
If you have questions, please contact Ann Michelle Householder at 734-276-0439 or via e-mail at ahouseholder_contractor@ap.org.
Mitch Stacy, an award-winning AP journalist who has reported from Florida, Georgia and Ohio, has been named a hybrid sports and news reporter in Columbus.
Stacy has spent the last four years as a breaking news staffer in Columbus, where he has been key in chasing spot news and coordinating coverage across formats with colleagues in the field and editors across the AP.
Mitch Stacy, center, holds a certificate honoring 15 years of service with AP in February 2016. (AP Photo/Patti Baker)
Previously, he was an AP reporter in Florida, where he covered hurricanes, murder cases and presidential politics for 10 years. He joined the AP in 1998 in London, England, spending more than a year there before working as a sports reporter and columnist for Gator Bait Magazine in Gainesville, Florida. He rejoined the AP as a courts reporter in Atlanta in 2001.
Stacy will cover sports and breaking news in Ohio, including Ohio State’s football and basketball teams, the NHL’s Blue Jackets and
other sports and news in and around central Ohio.
Stacy is a Huber Heights, Ohio, native and a graduate of Ohio University.
The finalists for the 2015 Michigan Associated Press Media Editors newspaper contest have moved on the Ohio AP wire, slugged BC-MI—Michigan APME Newspaper Awards and AP- MI—Michigan APME Broadcast Awards.
Please contact Shelli Sanzo at (ssanzo_contractor@ap.org) 614-558-3868 by Tuesday, March 15 to report any misspelled names, titles or other problems.
The winners will be announced at the Michigan APME annual luncheon in Lansing on Sunday, May 22. Registration materials will be emailed to news managers and are also posted online at http://discover.ap.org/contests/michigan. They also will be emailed to news managers.
AP is introducing a new pilot digest that we are testing with The Conversation, a not-for-profit media platform, to provide you with increased newsworthy academic content rewritten for a mainstream audience at no additional cost. The goal of the pilot is to evaluate interest in academic content.
What is The Conv
ersation?
The Conversation is an independent source for informed commentary and analysis on a wide range of news and information. Written by expert academics from top research universities, The Conversation utilizes an experienced editorial team to transform articles for mainstream consumption.
How can I access the new digest?
During the pilot program, you’ll receive a curated digest of articles each weekday morning at 6:30 a.m. Eastern. Digests will be searchable using the slug BC-TC-The Conversation,ADVISORY. A sample digest can be viewed here.
What content is included in the digest?
Articles will cover subjects including energy, education, politics and science and technology, and can be used in print or online in accordance with The Conversation’s republishing guidelines.
What’s next?
If we see solid interest, the second phase of the pilot will be the development and testing of a feed for direct integration into content management systems in order to make your workflow easier.
Please send questions and feedback to email address here.
Register today for the 2016 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet at The Hilton Columbus at Easton Town Center.
The banque
t will take place on Sunday, May 15, beginning with the Ohio AP state meeting at 10 a.m. That will be followed by a cash bar and lunch at 11:30 a.m. After lunch, we’ll announce the winners of the General Excellence, Hall of Fame and First Amendment awards, hand out plaques to the winners of the other categories, and introduce the 2016-17 Ohio APME board of directors.
We’ll also hold a drawing at the awards ceremony to give away door prizes to lucky audience members.
Please register online at 2016ohioapmeregistration.eventbrite.com. The deadline to register for the convention is Wednesday, May 4.
Directions and a list of hotels in the Easton Town Center area are on our website at discover.ap.org/contests/ohio. Please contact the hotels directly for rates and reservations.
Questions? Please contact Barbara Reed at the AP in Columbus at 614-607-3282, or via e-mail at breed_contractor@ap.org.
Virtual reality is journalism’s next frontier. While the goal of sharing stories has remained the same for journalists, the advancement of technology is allowing us to do so in new ways.
Join our next Definitive Source webinar, which will cover technology and business considerations, including market size, distribution and monetization, as well as examples of where virtual reality has been used in journalism
What:
AP DefinitiveSource Webcast Series: “Virtual Reality for Today’s Newsrooms”
Who:
Francesco Marconi, AP Manager/Strategy & Development
Niko Chauls, Director/Applied Technology at Gannett Digital
Moderator Paul Cheung, AP Director of Interactive & Digital News Production
When:
Wednesday, March 23, 2 – 3 p.m. EDT, including a brief Q&A
Where:
On your computer, at your desk. Click here to register.
lease feel free to share this invitation with anyone from your staff who might be interested in this topic. And if you are new to virtual reality, you may want to check out this post on using virtual reality to get closer to a story.
The finalists for the 2015 Ohio Associated Press Media Editors newspaper contest have moved on the Ohio AP wire, slugged BC-OH—Ohio APME Newspaper Awards and AP-OH—Ohio APME Broadcast Awards.
Please contact Barb Stauffer at bstauffer_news@ap.org or 614-439-4463 by Friday, March 4 to report any misspelled names, titles or other problems with the finalists.
The winners will be announced at the Ohio APME annual luncheon in Columbus on Sunday, May 15. Registration materials for the awards banquet are posted online at http://2016ohioapmeregistration.eventbrite.com. They also will be emailed to news managers.
We are moving test tables for the Michigan presidential primary election, scheduled for March 8, during the following dates and times:
Testing for the Ohio state and presidential primaries, scheduled for March 15, take place:
Full advisories are moving on the state wires and have been emailed to premium election subscribers.
The Ohio AP Legislative and Political Preview session held Feb. 11 at the Ohio Supreme Court featured elected officials from all three branches of Ohio’s state governm
ent discussing their priorities for the year ahead.
We also heard from the state’s political party chiefs on what’s in store for their candidates during the 2016 election season.
The Ohio Channel has video of the daylong session at http://www.ohiochannel.org/.
You can also see how it unfolded on Twitter at #apforum2016.
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