The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-08
ASSOCIATED PRESS
DESCRIBED IN talk
Tribune Editor Tells Kiwanis Of
Work Done BY News
gathering Agency

What the Associated Press Is, what
lit does and how 1t operates was ex.
planned to members Of the Kiwani,
club In = luncheon address Tues.
day noon by Kenneth w. simons
Tribune editor and former Associated
Press correspondent for North Da.
kota.
Pointing out that the Associated
Press was the biggest cooperative as.
ISOLATION In America until the ad.
vent of the government-spons
cooperative organizations, the speak
er asserted that it also Is one Of the
oldest and certainly the most sue.
ccssful, spending approximately nine
million dollars year to obtain and
distribute the news Of the world
This cost IS charged to the member
newspapers on an assessment basis
and every newspaper must, In addi-
ton, make its local news available to
the association without cost.
On this basis, the speaker pointed
out, all news available to one North
Dakota daily newspaper Is available
to every other daily In the state, thus
increasing the amount of news which
may be printed by each Of them. II
is this principle Of cooperative &C.
ton which has made the Associated
Press the biggest news-gathering or
ganization in the world. It's contacts
are 50 wide and its ramifications &C
great that few events Of Importance
can happen in this country without
news Of them being made available
to q member newspaper Of the Asso-
ciated Press and by 1t made known
to the world.
In foreign lands, simons said, the
Associated Press maintains staff wri.
tiers and also has affiliations with
the leading news-gathering organ
izations, such as the Canadian Press
Reuters, the big English agency
Havas and others. These news
gathering facilities enable the Asso.
ciated Press to tell American readers
Immediately OF events in China
Manchuria or Japan and elsewhere
in the world.
In order to gather and distribute
its news, the Associated Press main.
tains q leased telegraphic service
with 225, 900 miles Of wire, connecting
its newspapers and central bureau
points. In North Dakota every daily
newspaper Is an Associated Pres!
member and receives approximate,
10000 words a day of the total o
100000 words available at each o.
the major points there news is cen
tralized. For the northwest this L
done at st. Paul.
Only about half Of the amount re-
ceived is used by any one newspaper
he said, because stories sent early IL
the day frequently are superseded b!
later developments and some stories
Of particular interest in one or NOR
localities may not be interesting II
another locality. It Is the job Of al
editor, Simons said, to sift out wlla
he wishes to print Of the tremendo,l
volume Of news available to him.
The Associated Press news repor
Is kept fair and unbiased, he salt
by the constant scrutiny Of its Of
ficers, its board Of directors, its mem
beers and the general public, the ain
being only to present the facts with
out expression Of opinion. Tn
theory upon which the association
operates, he said, is that the people
II given the facts. may form thei
own conclusions regarding any par
ticular matter.
Myron H. Anderson, instructor a
the high school, sang two bariton'
solos, Cadrnan,s AT Dawning'' ant
"One Fleeing Hour" by Dorothy Lee
p. E. Byrne was chairman Of TIL
day.