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日前，接到消息，美联社记者将专程来广州采访本院救治象面人。此外，美联社记者还将全程采访本院为黄春才手术的全过程，向全世界发布这一重大新闻。

[附] 关于AP美联社（The Associated Press）介绍

美联社1848年成立于纽约，作为当今世界新闻资讯系统的中枢和世界上最古老和最庞大的新闻组织，每天向数千家报纸、电台、电视台和网络用户提供各种形式和格式的媒介(图片，图像，音频，视频)新闻，受它所服务的人群每天超过十亿．美联社至今已获得47项普利策新闻奖，超过世界上任何新闻组织．作为一个非营利性的合作组织，它拥有3,700名雇员，分布在全世界240个记者站从事新闻工作。

美联社（Associated Press）是美国历史最悠久、规模最大的通讯社，它的前身是1848年成立的港口新闻联合社，由6家纽约日报为对付日益激烈的新闻竞争而建立的一个合作性质的通讯社，经营上自负盈亏，从不接受政府资助或入股。作为一种相对独立的经济实体，美联社不断改革报道方式与传播手段，适应受众不断变化的口味与兴趣，使得美联社在传媒领域赢得了极高的权威。

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The Associated Press 美联社 全球网站： http://www.ap.org

About Associated Press

Facts

The Associated Press is the backbone of the world's information system serving thousands of daily newspaper, radio, television and online customers with coverage in all media and news in all formats. It is the largest and oldest news organization in the world, serving as a source of news, photos, graphics, audio and video.

AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed. AP operates as a not-for-profit cooperative with more than 4,000 employees working in more than 240 worldwide bureaus. AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members. They elect a board of directors that directs the cooperative.

AP supplies a steady stream of news around the clock to its domestic members, international subscribers and commercial customers. It has the industry's most sophisticated digital photo network, a 24-hour continuously updated online news service, a state-of-the-art television news service and one of the largest radio networks in the United States. It also has a commercial digital photo archive, a photo library housing more than 10 million images and provides advertising management services.

AP has received 49 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other news organization in the categories for which it can compete. It has 30 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization.

The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP.

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243 bureaus in 97 countries.

1,700 U.S. daily, weekly, non-English and college newspapers.

5,000 radio and television outlets taking AP services.

850 AP Radio News audio affiliates.

550 International broadcasters who receive AP's global video news service, APTN, and SNTV, a sports joint venture video service.
121 number of countries served by AP
5 languages in which AP sends news. The report is translated into many more languages by international subscribers.
4,100 AP editorial, communications and administrative employees worldwide.
3,000 of AP's worldwide staff are journalists.
49 Pulitzer Prizes, including 30 for photography.

The AP news report is:
24 hours a day
7 days a week