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Colleagues,

Good Wednesday morning on this Oct. 22, 2025,

We’re saddened to bring you news of the death of Nan Hee McMinn, producer for AP360 Affiliate Relations and Operations in Washington.

Nico Maounis, director of Global News Events for AP360, shared the following with AP staff.

“With great sadness,” he said, “the AP 360 team shares the news that Nan Hee McMinn passed away on Sunday, 19 October, with her husband, Anthony and son, James by her side.

“As many of you will remember, Nan Hee was kind, caring and extremely helpful to all of our colleagues within the AP and also a great support to the many broadcast affiliates serviced by AP360.

“During special events, she was the first on site and the last to leave, dressed for a catwalk, effortlessly running cables in platform shoes with five-inch heels. We loved her energy and admired her determination. Our department is heartbroken having lost this gorgeous friend and colleague. She will be forever missed.”

One of her former colleagues, Larry Gold, said, “I just want you guys to know how grateful I am to have worked side by side with Nan Hee. When she was leading a project, it was obvious how her enormous empathy for her fellow humans shaped everything she did. I’m eternally grateful and regret I didn’t have enough time to thank her for everything she did for me.”

Formerly AP Global Media Services, AP360 offers broadcast and production services for live events, content creation, and news coverage. It provides services such as live reporting positions, multi-camera shoots, live event planning, and content distribution.

Here’s to a great day – be safe, stay healthy, live it to your fullest.

Paul

Your favorite stories on the dreaded bane of journalists' lives - Typos!

Robert Glass - It wasn't a typo, just a mistake, but here it is all the same. I was supervising the Washington desk one night when we had to deal with a survey of heart and kidney surgical outcomes at hospitals across the country. Luckily, before I sent it to the wire, someone noticed that the heart and kidney columns were reversed. No problem. The office assistant fixed it with a simple find and replace. Later that night, I got a call from an editor at some paper in the Midwest. The conversation went something like this:

"Hey, you've got a mistake in that hospital survey story."

"Really, what do you mean?"

"We'll, I'm pretty sure we don't have a Sacred Kidney Medical Center."

For the record, the office assistant went on to become an ace White House reporter.

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Mike Holmes - This didn’t happen to me, but it’s the best typo story I ever heard. Thought it might offer your readers a chuckle:

Tommy Bolt was a professional golfer in the 1950s, known for his temper as well as his athletic skill.

After a Tulsa newspaper reported during the 1958 U.S. Open that he was 49 years old instead of 39, Bolt went to the press room and found the reporter.

“It was a typographical error,” the reporter tried to explain.

“Typographical error, hell,” Bolt responded. “That was a perfect 4 and a perfect 9.”

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Sue Johnson - In my first vacation relief job at the AP in Charlotte, NC, I had to call the desk in South Carolina when an entirely appropriate, but terrible, typo appeared on that state’s broadcast wire very early one Saturday morning.

It was a story about the annual Chitlin’ Strut in Salley, SC. The word “Chitlin” was spelled “Shitlin.” Since chitlins are cleaned and cooked hog intestines, it was the funniest bulletin kill in my memory.

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Marty Steinberg - One of my most embarrassing typos was in an internal message I had sent to NY GEN from BAX (Baltimore bureau) early in my AP career. I don’t remember the all-points question I was answering, but it was for a roundup. I meant to write “a finger in the dike solution,” but I spelled “dike” with a “y.” The originator of the all-points message, whose name I am withholding, reamed me out. He said the misspelling could have been published on the wire. He was right, but it was a stupid, honest error on my part. I didn’t take the time to check the spelling. (But admittedly, I did just look up “reamed,” avoiding “reemed,” as in Harry Reems.)

Another typo I remember hearing about was in a banner headline in the Baltimore News America, some time before I arrived there in 1979.

It was supposed to say something like “Mayor condemns public demonstration.” Unfortunately, the “L” in public was dropped. When I asked about it in a Facebook post, columnist Jacques Kelly noted that the mayor it was referring to was Tommy D’Alesandro III, Nancy Pelosi’s brother.

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Jerry Schwartz – Pete Mattiace’s story in Monday’s Connecting – about how he inadvertently informed Bert Parks that he had been fired from the Miss America pageant – brought back memories. I wrote Pete:

Your call to Bert Parks is legendary, but you didn’t include my favorite part. When Rick Pienciak told the story, he included your reaction when you realized Parks didn’t know he had been canned:

“No, Bertie! NOOOOOOOOOOO!”

It’s gotta be true.

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John Willis - That sounds strangely like a story Hughes Rudd told during an Texas APB meeting in San Antonio back in the early 80s. He was the editor and chief cook and bottle washer at the Rock Springs (WY) Rocket and he claims to have had a story about a small, blond-haired child who went missing. His headline went wrong when he wrote Two Head Boy Missing.....or it may have been "found." I don't remember which. But it should have been Tow-headed...

Hughes is dead, so we can't ask him.

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Chuck Wolfe - For many years, The State Journal, here in Frankfort, published a weekly roundup of Cal Ripken youth baseball action. Extremely popular feature, especially with players’ parents, myself included. One roundup was intended to report that a youngster named Gordon Miles “hit a double.” But a typo rendered it “Gordon Mile shit a double.” Hands down, the most discussed roundup of the summer.

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Michael Weinfeld - This photo was taken with my iPhone at sunrise from our porch in Moab, Utah where were vacationing.

Day Dream Believer and a Homecoming Queen

Paul Stevens – It was a cold October weekend 60 years ago this month when Linda Saul and I went out on our first date.

I asked her to join me for the 1965 Homecoming at Fort Dodge Community College (now Iowa Central) and lucky for me, Linda, a nursing student, said Yes. Two weeks later, she was elected by the student body as Homecoming Queen. A parade down Central Avenue followed. And a dance the next night.

Wow, did this Day Dream Believer luck out again.

And again when we married in 1968 and those lyrics to the Monkees' "Daydream Believer" song so applied:

Oh, and our good times starts and end

Without dollar one to spend

But how much, baby, do we really need?

And again after the births of three kids.

And again and again and again…

Connecting wishes Happy Birthday

John Harris

Stories of interest

Warner Bros. Discovery confirms it has received buyout interest and is considering its options (AP)

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery — the home of HBO, CNN and DC Studios — has signaled that it may be open to selling all or parts of its business, just months after announcing plans to split into two companies.

In an announcement Tuesday, the entertainment and media giant said it had initiated a review of “strategic alternatives” in light of “unsolicited interest” it had received from multiple parties, for both the entire company and Warner Bros. specifically.

Warner Bros. Discovery did not specify where that interest was coming from, and a spokesperson said the company couldn’t share additional information when reached by The Associated Press. But its review arrives after growing reports of a potential bidding war — including from Skydance-owned Paramount, which closed its own $8 billion merger in early August.

Citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Paramount approached Warner Bros. Discovery about a majority-cash offer in late September — but that Warner Chief Executive David Zaslav had rebuffed those first overtures. According to the outlet, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison later considered taking a more aggressive approach, such as going directly to shareholders.

Read more here. Shared by Myron Belkind.

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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink (PBS)

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers across America and guts them. No one knows why, until journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen/women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.

Click here for link. Shared by Jim Carlson.

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CNN’s future at stake as owner Warner Bros. Discovery seeks sale (Washington Post)

By Scott Nover

Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of CNN and HBO, announced that it’s open to a sale, leaving its news and streaming subsidiaries’ futures uncertain.

The media conglomerate previously announced a plan to split into two companies — cleaving its entertainment offerings, including the Warner Bros. film studio and the HBO Max streaming service, from its sports and news programming. It says it has decided to explore sale opportunities after receiving bids.

David Ellison, whose company Skydance recently took over Paramount, has reportedly expressed interest in bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery. Ellison recently spent $150 million to buy Bari Weiss’s website, the Free Press, and named the conservative writer editor in chief of CBS News.

An acquisition would place CNN and CBS, two legacy news brands, under the same roof. A Paramount spokesperson declined to comment on whether the company would — or had already — bid.

“It’s no surprise that the significant value of our portfolio is receiving increased recognition by others in the market,” David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, said in a statement. “After receiving interest from multiple parties, we have initiated a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives to identify the best path forward to unlock the full value of our assets.”

Read more here. Shared by Dennis Conrad.

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Biased Media Needs a Complete Culture Change (Wall Street Journal)

By Gerard Baker

For a glimpse into the sealed world of the establishment media, nothing tops Pauline Kael’s famous observation about the 1972 presidential election.

It isn’t quite true, as lore has it, that the New Yorker’s film critic was so unaware of her Himalayan elevation above her fellow Americans that she wondered aloud how Richard Nixon could possibly have won since she didn’t know anyone who had voted for him. In fact her quote was more guileful than that—and all the more revealing for it.

“I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are, I don’t know. They are outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”

Less an ingenuous revelation of lofty self-insulation from such voters, then. More a conscious repining at their existence, mixed with revulsion at the thought that she occasionally had to share space with them.

This Marie Antoinette-level empathy for how other people live and think has been the biggest problem with what we might continue to call elite news organizations in the past 30 years. It is the primary reason that trust in their reliability as providers of a fair accounting of the news has collapsed.

Contrary to the fevered imaginings of MAGA partisans, editors and reporters and anchors don’t sit around concocting progressive talking points, checking in from time to time with the Democratic National Committee, and handing out the approved line to take on all the important topics.

Read more here. Shared by Dennis Conrad.

Today in History - Oct. 22, 2025

By The Associated Press

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2025. There are 70 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On Oct. 22, 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and received a lifetime ban from Olympic sports after the International Cycling Union chose not to appeal doping charges against Armstrong by the United States Anti-Doping Agency.

Also on this date:

In 1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first elected president of the Republic of Texas, which earned its independence from Mexico that year in a military rebellion.

In 1934, bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was shot to death by federal agents and local police at a farm near East Liverpool, Ohio.

In 1962, in a nationally televised address, President John F. Kennedy revealed the presence of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba and announced a naval blockade of all offensive military equipment shipped to Cuba.

In 1968, Apollo 7, the first crewed mission of NASA's Apollo space program, returned safely from Earth orbit, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean.

In 2014, a gunman shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then stormed the Canadian Parliament building before he himself was shot and killed.

In 2016, the Chicago Cubs won their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series. (The Cubs would go on to beat Cleveland in the World Series in seven games, their first series championship since 1908.)

Today’s Birthdays: Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale is 89. Actor Christopher Lloyd is 87. Actor Derek Jacobi is 87. Actor Catherine Deneuve is 82. Physician and author Deepak Chopra is 79. Actor Jeff Goldblum is 73. Actor-comedian Bob Odenkirk is 63. Olympic gold medal figure skater Brian Boitano is 62. Country singer Shelby Lynne is 57. Reggae deejay and singer Shaggy is 57. Film director Spike Jonze is 56. Argentine President Javier Milei is 55. Former MLB All-Star Ichiro Suzuki is 52. Actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson is 50. Actor Corey Hawkins is 37. Actor Jonathan Lipnicki is 35. Rapper 21 Savage is 33. Rapper Roddy Ricch is 27.

AP classes, by the year...

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a listing of Connecting colleagues who have shared the year and the bureau where they started with the AP. If you would like to share your own information, I will include it in later postings. Current AP staffers are also welcome to share their information. We include deceased staffers when their information is shared; their names are italicized.)

1951 - Norm Abelson (Boston)

1953 – Charles Monzella (Huntington, WVa)

1955 – Henry Bradsher (Atlanta), Paul Harrington (Boston), Joe McGowan (Cheyenne)

1957 - Louis Uchitelle (Philadelphia)

1958 – Roy Bolch (Kansas City), Robert Dubill (Buffalo)

1959 – Charlie Bruce (Montgomery)

1960 – Claude Erbsen (New York), Bill Lenz (Detroit), Carl Leubsdorf (New Orleans), Harry Moskos (Albuquerque)

1961 – Peter Arnett (Jakarta, Indonesia), Strat Douthat (Charleston. WVa), Warren Lerude (San Diego), Ed Staats (Austin)

1962 – Paul Albright (Cheyenne), Malcolm Barr Sr. (Honolulu), Myron Belkind (New York), Dave Mazzarella (Newark), Peggy Simpson (Dallas), Kelly Smith Tunney (Miami)

1963 – Hal Bock (New York), Jeff Williams (Portland OR)

1964 – Rachel Ambrose (Indianapolis), Larry Hamlin (Oklahoma City), John Lengel (Los Angeles), Ron Mulnix (Denver), Lyle Price (San Francisco), Lew Simons (New York), Arlene Sposato (New York), Karol Stonger (Indianapolis), Hilmi Toros (New York)

1965 – Niles Andersen (Omaha), Bob Dobkin (Pittsburgh), Harry Dunphy (Denver), John Gibbons (New York), Bob Greene (Kansas City), Jim Luther (Nashville), Larry Margasak (Harrisburg), Rich Oppel (Tallahassee), Jim Rubin (Trenton). Lynn Sherr (New York), Mark Thayer (San Francisco)

1966 – Shirley Christian (Kansas City), Mike Doan (Portland, OR), Edie Lederer (New York), Nancy Shipley (Nashville), Mike Short (Los Angeles), Marty Thompson (Seattle), Nick Ut (Saigon), Kent Zimmerman (Chicago)

1967 – Dan Berger (Los Angeles), Adolphe Bernotas (Concord), Lou Boccardi (New York), Linda Deutsch (Los Angeles), Don Harrison (Los Angeles), Frank Hawkins (New York), Doug Kienitz (Cheyenne), David Liu (New York), Bruce Lowitt (Los Angeles), Chuck McFadden (Los Angeles), Martha Malan (Minneapolis), Bill Morrissey (Buffalo), Larry Paladino (Detroit), Michael Putzel (Raleigh), Bruce Richardson (Chicago), Richard Shafer (Baltimore), Victor Simpson (Newark), Michael Sniffen (Newark), Kernan Turner (Portland, Ore)

1968 – Lee Balgemann (Chicago), John Eagan (San Francisco), Earleen Fisher (Indianapolis), Joe Galu (Albany/Troy), Peter Gehrig (Frankfurt), Charles Hanley (Albany), Jerry Harkavy (Portland, Maine), Herb Hemming (New York), Brian King (Albany), Samuel Koo (New York), Karren Mills (Minneapolis), Michael Rubin (Los Angeles), Rick Spratling (Salt Lake City), Barry Sweet (Seattle)

1969 - Ann Blackman (New York), Ford Burkhart (Philadelphia), Harry Cabluck (Pittsburgh), Dick Carelli (Charleston, WVa), Dennis Coston (Richmond), Ron Frehm (New York), Mary V. Gordon (Newark), Daniel Q. Haney (Portland, Maine), Mike Harris (Chicago), Brad Martin (Kansas City), David Minthorn (Frankfurt), Cynthia Rawitch (Los Angeles), Bob Reid (Charlotte), Mike Reilly (New York), Doug Tucker (Tulsa), Bill Wertz (Minneapolis), Jim Willse (New York), Bill Winter (Helena)

1970 – Richard Boudreaux (New York), David Briscoe (Manila), Sibby Christensen (New York), Richard Drew (San Francisco), Bob Egelko (Los Angeles), James Gerstenzang (San Francisco), Steve (Indy) Herman (Indianapolis), Tim Litsch (New York), Lee Margulies (Los Angeles), Arthur Max (Tel Aviv), Chris Pederson (Salt Lake City), Brendan Riley (San Francisco), Chuck Robinson (Indianapolis), Larry Thorson (Philadelphia)

1971 – Harry Atkins (Detroit), Jim Bagby (Kansas City), Larry Blasko (Chicago), Jim Carlson (Milwaukee), Jim Carrier (New Haven), Chris Connell (Newark), Bill Gillen (New York), Bill Hendrick (Birmingham), John Lumpkin (Dallas), Kendal Weaver (Montgomery)

1972 – Hank Ackerman (New York), Rod Davis (Dallas), Bob Fick (St. Louis), Joe Frazier (Portland, Ore.), Terry Ganey (St. Louis), Mike Graczyk (Detroit), Denis Gray (Albany), Lindel Hutson (Little Rock), Linda Kramer Jenning (San Francisco), Brent Kallestad (Sioux Falls), Tom Kent (Hartford), Nolan Kienitz (Dallas), Kent Kilpatrick (Detroit), Andy Lippman (Phoenix), Mike Millican (Hartford), Bruce Nathan (New York), Ginny Pitt Sherlock (Boston), Lew Wheaton (Richmond)

1973 - Jerry Cipriano (New York), Susan Clark (New York), Norm Clarke (Cincinnati), Marty Crutsinger (Miami), Steve Fox (Los Angeles), Joe Galianese (East Brunswick), Merrill Hartson (Richmond), Mike Hendricks (Albany), Tom Journey (Tucson), Steve Loeper (Los Angeles), Jesus Medina (New York), Ellen Miller (Helena), Tom Slaughter (Sioux Falls), Jim Spehar (Denver), Paul Stevens (Albany), Jeffrey Ulbrich (Cheyenne), Owen Ullmann (Detroit), Suzanne Vlamis (New York), John Willis (Omaha), Evans Witt (San Francisco)

1974 – Norman Black (Baltimore), Julie Dunlap (Philadelphia), David Espo (Cheyenne), Dan George (Topeka), Robert Glass (Philadelphia), Steve Graham (Helena), Tim Harper (Milwaukee), Elaine Hooker (Hartford), Sue Price Johnson (Charlotte), Fong Lien (Los Angeles), Dave Lubeski (Washington), Janet McConnaughey (Washington), Lee Mitgang (New York), Barry Shlachter (Tokyo), Bud Weydert (Toledo), Marc Wilson (Little Rock)

1975 – Peter Eisner (Columbus), Charles Hill (Charlotte), Jim Limbach (Washington), Bill McCloskey (Washington), David Powell (New York), Eileen Alt Powell (Milwaukee)

1976 – Brad Cain (Chicago), Judith Capar (Philadelphia), Dick Chady (Albany), David Crary (Jackson), Steve Crowley (Washington), Diane Duston (Columbus), David Egner (Oklahoma City), Carole Feldman (Newark), Ed Golden (New York), Steve Hindy (Newark), Marc Humbert (Albany), Steven Hurst (Columbus), Richard Lowe (Nashville), Mike Mcphee (Boston), John Nolan (Nashville), Guy Palmiotto (New York), Charlotte Porter (Minneapolis), Greg Thompson (Dallas), Chuck Wolfe (Charlotte)

1977 – Bryan Brumley (Washington), Robert Burns (Jefferson City), Charles Campbell (Nashville), Carolyn Carlson (Atlanta), Dave Carpenter (Philadelphia), Solange De Santis (New York), Jim Drinkard (Jefferson City), Ken Herman (Dallas), Mike Holmes (Des Moines), Doug Jeffries (New York), Brad Kalbfeld (New York), Larry Kilman (Atlanta), Scott Kraft (Jefferson City), John Kreiser (New York), Peter Leabo (Dallas), Kevin LeBoeuf (Los Angeles), Ellen Nimmons (Minneapolis), Joyce Rosenberg (New York), Dan Sewell (Buffalo), Estes Thompson (Richmond), David Tirrell-Wysocki (Concord)

1978 – Jane Anderson (Providence), Vinnie D'Alessandro (Hartford), Tom Eblen (Louisville), Ruth Gersh (Richmond), Monte Hayes (Caracas), Matt Mygatt (New Orleans), Doug Pizac (Los Angeles), Charles Richards (Dallas), Reed Saxon (Los Angeles), Steve Wilson (Boston)

1979 – Jim Abrams (Tokyo), Peter Banda (Albuquerque), Brian Bland (Los Angeles), Scotty Comegys (Chicago), John Daniszewski (Philadelphia), Frances D’Emilio (San Francisco), Pat Fergus (Albany), Ken Fields (St. Louis), Brian Friedman (Des Moines), Sally Hale (Dallas), Susana Hayward (New York), Jill Lawrence (Harrisburg), Thomas Leone (Harrisburg), Warren Levinson (New York), Joe Madison (New York), Barry Massey (Kansas City), Phillip Rawls (Nashville), John Redman (London), John Rice (Carson City), Kurt Rossi (New York), Linda Sargent (Little Rock), Joel Stashenko (Albany), Rebecca Trounson (Denver), Robert Wielaard (Brussels)

1980 – Alan Adler (Cleveland), Christopher Bacey (New York), Diane M. Balk (Indianapolis), Jeff Barnard (Providence), Nancy Benac (New York), Peter Coy (Albany), Mark Duncan (Cleveland), Bill Kaczor (Tallahassee), Mitchell Landsberg (Reno), Mike Mazzo (East Brunswick), Kevin Noblet (New Orleans), Lee Perryman (Tampa), Jim Rowley (Baltimore), David Speer (Jackson), Hal Spencer (Providence), Jo Steck (Los Angeles), Carol J. Williams (Seattle)

1981 – Paul Davenport (Phoenix), Dan Day (Milwaukee), John Flesher (Raleigh), Ray Formanek Jr. (St. Louis), Alan Fram (Newark), Debra Hale-Shelton (Little Rock), Len Iwanski (Bismarck), Ed McCullough (Albany), Drusilla Menaker (Philadelphia), Kim Mills (New York), Mark Mittelstadt (Des Moines), Susan Okula (Hartford), Roland Rochet (New York), Larry Ryckman (Carson City NV), Lee Siegel (Seattle), Marty Steinberg (Baltimore), Bill Vogrin (Kansas City)

1982 – Dorothy Abernathy (Little Rock), Al Behrman (Cincinnati), Tom Cohen (Jefferson City), John Epperson (Chicago), Ric Feld (Atlanta), Kiki Lascaris Georgio (New York), Nick Geranios (Helena), Mike Gracia (Washington), Howard Gros (New Orleans), Mark Humphrey (Nashville), Dan Juric (East Brunswick), Robert Kimball (New York), Rob Kozloff (Detroit), Bill Menezes (Kansas City), Jack Messmer (New York), David Ochs (New York), Eric Risberg (San Francisco), Cecilia White (Los Angeles)

1983 – Elise Amendola (Boston), Edward L. Birk (Boston), Donna Cassata (Albany), Scott Charton (Little Rock), Sue Cross (Columbus), Mark Elias (Chicago), Mary Esch (Albany), Doug Fisher (Columbus), Alan Fram (Newark), David Ginsburg (Washington), Lisa Hamm-Greenawalt, Diana Heidgerd (Miami), Kevin McGill (New Orleans), Sheila Norman-Culp (New York), Carol Esler Ochs (New York), Jim Reindl (Detroit), Amy Sancetta (Philadelphia), Angie Lamoli Silvestry (New Orleans), Rande Simpson (New York), Dave Skidmore (Milwaukee), Barbara Worth (New York)

1984 – Laurie Asseo (Phoenix), David Beard (Chicago), Owen Canfield (Oklahoma City), Raf Casert (Brussels), Wayne Chin (Washington), Jack Elliott (Oklahoma City), Jim Heintz (Columbus), Candice Hughes (Dallas), Danny Johnston (Little Rock), Kelly P. Kissel (New Orleans), Hank Kurz (New York), Joe Macenka (Richmond), Paul Newberry (Atlanta), Eva Parziale (San Francisco), Walt Rastetter (New York), Malcolm Ritter (New York), Keith Robinson (Columbus), Cliff Schiappa (Kansas City), David Sedeño (Dallas), Andrew Selsky (Cheyenne), Pedro Sotomayor (Los Angeles), Lindsey Tanner (Chicago), Patty Woodrow (Washington)

1985 – Dennis Anderson (Los Angeles), Dennis Conrad (Cleveland), George Garties (Los Angeles), Beth Grace (Columbus), Bob McHugh (Newark), Betty Kumpf Pizac (Los Angeles)

1986 – Joni Baluh Beall (Richmond), David Beard (Jackson), Tom Coyne (Columbia, SC), Dave DeGrace (Milwaukee), Alan Flippen (Louisville), Paul Geitner (Montgomery), Jim Gerberich (San Francisco), Howard Goldberg (New York), Mark Hamrick (Dallas), Sandy Kozel (Washington), Arlene Levinson (Boston), Robert Meyers (London), David Morris (Harrisburg), Susan Ragan (New York), Lori Dodge Rose (Jefferson City), Bob Seavey (Lima), Barbara Woike (New York)

1987 – Donna Abu-Nasr (Beirut), Jim Anderson (Mexico City), Dave Bauder (Albany), Bob Bellafiore (Albany), Chuck Burton (Charlotte), Ted Duncombe (Philadelphia), Beth Harris (Indianapolis), Lynne Harris (New York), Steven L. Herman (Charleston, WVa), Elaine Kurtenbach (Tokyo), Rosemarie Mileto (New York), John Rogers (Los Angeles), Julia Rubin (Denver)

1988 – Chris Carola (Albany), Peg Coughlin (Pierre), Frank Eltman (New York), Kathy Gannon (Islamabad), Steve Hart (Washington), Melissa Jordan (Sioux Falls), Mark Lennihan (New York), Margaret Lillard (Nashville), Bill Pilc (New York), Philip Rosenbaum (New York), Kelley Shannon (Dallas), Darlene Superville (Newark)

1989 – Charlie Arbogast (Trenton), Susan Boyle (New York), John Braunreiter (Milwaukee), Ted Bridis (Oklahoma City), Paul Randall Dickerson (Nashville), Katie Fairbank (Indianapolis), Ron Fournier (Little Rock), Ann Gibson (Richmond), Josh Lemieux (Kansas City), Teresa Walker (Nashville), Michelle Williams (Nashville)

1990 – David Boe (Chicago), Gary Fine (Washington), Frank Fisher (Jackson), Ken Giglio (Washington), Dick Lipsey (Kansas City), Kathryn Loomans (Washington), Dan Perry (Bucharest), Steve Sakson (Baltimore), Sean Thompson (New York)

1991 – Amanda Kell (Richmond), Suzanne Mast Lee (Washingon), Santiago Lyon (Cairo), Lisa Pane (Hartford), Wayne Partlow (Washington), Ricardo Reif (Caracas), Bill Sikes (Buffalo), Susan Walsh (Boston)

1992 – Emery P. Dalesio (Trenton), Jennifer Garske (Washington), Kerry Huggard (New York), Wilfredo Lee (Washington)

1993 – Connie Farrow (St. Louis), Shawn Pogatchnik (London), Jim Salter (St. Louis), Tim Sullivan (New York), Adam Yeomans (Tallahassee)

1994 - Bill Gorman (Washington), Glen Johnson (Boston), Ralph Siegel (Trenton), Margie Szaroleta (Washington)

1995 – Kathy Barks Hoffman (Lansing), Ray Long (Springfield IL), Elaine Thompson (Houston), Donna Tommelleo (Hartford)

1996 – Patricia N. Casillo (New York), Burt Herman (Sacramento), John Khin (New York)

1997 – J. David Ake (Chicago), Peter Banda (Albuquerque), Martha Bellisle (Carson City), Kia Breaux (Kansas City), Chuck Burton (Charlotte), Pamela Collins (Dallas), Aaron Jackson (New York), Rachel La Corte (Miami), Madhu Krishnappa Maron (New York), Jim Suhr (Detroit), Jennifer Yates (Baltimore)

1998 – Alan Clendenning (New Orleans), Guthrie Collin (Albany), David Koenig (Dallas), Mitch Stacy (London), Richard Turkheimer (New Orleans)

1999 – Melinda Deslatte (Raleigh), Stacey Plaisance (New Orleans), Laura Rauch (Las Vegas), Terry Spencer (Miami)

2000 – Carrie Antlfinger (Milwaukee), Betsy Blaney (Dallas), Gary Gentile (Los Angeles), Ken Miller (Oklahoma City), Kevin O'Sullivan (New York), Rhonda Shafner (New York), Tom Tait (Las Vegas), Juliet Williams (Milwaukee)

2001 - Mike Weissenstein (New York)

2002 - Michael Casey (Jakarta)

2003 - Lolita Baldor (Washington), Valerie Komor (New York)

2004 - Jim Baltzelle (Dallas)

2005 – Ric Brack (Chicago), Richard Jacobsen (Mexico City), Frank Jordans (London), Angie Yack (Washington)

2006 – Jon Gambrell (Little Rock)

2008 - Steve Braun (Washington)

2011 - Joseph B. Frederick (New York)

2013 - Alex Sanz (Atlanta)

2014 - Peter Costanzo (New York)

2024 - Gabriela Aoun (San Diego)

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Connecting is a daily newsletter published Monday through Friday that reaches 2,000 retired and former Associated Press employees, present-day employees, and news industry and journalism school colleagues. It began in 2013. Past issues can be found by clicking Connecting Archive in the masthead. Its author, Paul Stevens, retired from the AP in 2009 after a 36-year career as a newsman in Albany and St. Louis, correspondent in Wichita, chief of bureau in Albuquerque, Indianapolis and Kansas City, and Central Region vice president based in Kansas City.

Got a story to share? A favorite memory of your AP days? Don't keep them to yourself. Share with your colleagues by sending to Ye Olde Connecting Editor. And don't forget to include photos!

Here are some suggestions:

- Connecting "selfies" - a word and photo self-profile of you and your career, and what you are doing today. Both for new members and those who have been with us a while.

- Second chapters - You finished a great career. Now tell us about your second (and third and fourth?) chapters of life.

- Spousal support - How your spouse helped in supporting your work during your AP career.

- My most unusual story - tell us about an unusual, off the wall story that you covered.

- "A silly mistake that you make"- a chance to 'fess up with a memorable mistake in your journalistic career.

- Multigenerational AP families - profiles of families whose service spanned two or more generations.

- Volunteering - benefit your colleagues by sharing volunteer stories - with ideas on such work they can do themselves.

- First job - How did you get your first job in journalism?

- Most unusual place a story assignment took you.

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