Six New York newspapers, tired of cutting each other's throats to get the news from outside the city, called a truce. Around a table at the New York Sun, they agreed to pool their stories. In a one-room walkup at Broadway and Liberty Street, they set up a one-man staff (named Jones) to run things. The name on the door: Associated Press.
This week, 100 years later, the A.P. passed its centenary* without so much as a pause of its clacking teletypes. In that time, it has become the world's biggest, most efficient and most impersonal news service, pumping a million words...
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