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Australian Associated Press
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Launched in 1935, Australian Associated Press is Australia's national news agency. Its stories are heavily used by the Australian news media.
AAP employs more than 175 journalists who work in bureaux in all Australian states and territories. It also maintains correspondents in Port Moresby, London, Auckland, Jakarta and Los Angeles as well as using a network of contributors from the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. AAP's domestic news coverage is complemented by alliances with the major international news agencies.
AAP's main focus is on breaking hard news. But it also distributes soft news, colour stories, feature stories, opinion, filler material and photographs.
Tony Gillies is the editor-in-chief, Stuart Parker is the head of news and finance and Mike Osborne is the head of sport and racing.
In early 2007, Gillies unveiled a plan to shift existing staff onto Australian Workplace Agreements - individual contracts promoted by the Howard government designed to remove collective bargaining from workplaces and reduce union influence. The contracts remove paid overtime, reduce shift penalties and cut annual leave loading from employees' wages. Gillies offered journalists one-off payments of $1000 to sign up to the AWAs within a month. There has been strong resistance to the AWAs, particularly in AAP's Sydney and Melbourne offices, with the overwhelming majority of staff preferring to remain on the enterprise agreement. Negotiations on a new enterprise agreement are due to begin in April.
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AAP is owned by four Australian news organisations - News Ltd, Fairfax, West Australian Newspapers (publishers of The West Australian) and Rural Press Limited. Fairfax and News Ltd both own 45 per cent, West Australian Newspapers 8 per cent, and Rural Press 2 per cent. Together these companies produce the vast majority of Australian newspapers.
AAP is Australia's only news agency and is therefore used very heavily. The majority of the country's newspapers, radio stations and news websites subscribe to the service and run AAP copy.
Often, the material is used without proper attribution, with many Australian newspaper reporters taking AAP stories and simply putting their bylines on them.
AAP's dominance means that any mistakes they make are readily distributed throughout most of the country's commercial media. However, AAP has shown it is willing to speedily correct errors on the record.
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