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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.

The company has more than 85,000 cartoons available for sale or licensing in its database (more than 20,000 of which are available on its Web site). The Cartoon Bank specializes in cartoons from The New Yorker magazine, offering every cartoon ever published in the magazine. The company also sells books and framed and matted prints of individual cartoons and New Yorker cover art. In addition, it offers custom cartoons and illustrations, as well as custom books, calendars, and journals for the promotional and executive markets.

The FeedRoom is an online media services firm that helps corporate and government clients distribute live video and other content using the Internet. Companies including Boeing, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Hewlett-Packard use the company's services to broadcast shareholder meetings, product launches, and customer events. The company also serves such government clients as the US Department of Defense. Its digital asset management product ActiveMedia allows advertising, print, and consumer product companies to create and share rich media files.

The H.W. Wilson Company publishes reference books and databases, such as the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, found mostly at libraries. Its print and electronic products include 25 full-text periodicals databases, 25 index databases, 5 collection development catalogs, and an art image database. The H.W. Wilson Company was founded in 1898 by Halsey William Wilson, and can trace its roots to 1889 when Wilson and his roommate Henry S. Morris, a fellow University of Minnesota student, invested $400 to create Morris & Wilson, a small bookselling business conducted from their dormitory room.

The NewsMarket is the global leader in digital video distribution services used by more than 25,000 media outlets in 190 countries. Medialink, a division of The NewsMarket, provides award-winning production of video and audio content for the Web, Television and Radio. Together, The NewsMarket and Medialink provide the most comprehensive and proven range of video-based services for corporations, PR firms and government agencies.

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