About AAP News

The core mission of Australian Associated Press (AAP) is to provide trusted, accurate and impartial journalism for the enrichment and education of all Australians.

In March 2020 the former shareholders announced that they were going to close the AAP newswire. It was not only a huge blow to the staff at the 85-year-old organisation, but it also had ramifications for hundreds of media outlets around the country who relied on AAP's text and images every day.

Fortunately, a group of philanthropists came together to save the company and AAP was reborn as a not-for-profit entity, with charitable status subsequently granted. AAP is the only newswire in the world to be structured in this way.

Since the ownership change, AAP has been inundated with public offers of support. Many of those who contributed to a campaign asked if they could support AAP and receive our news in return. AAP News was born out of these requests from the public.

The AAP News app and website allow our supporters and donors direct access to our content. AAP News will also provide a platform to showcase content produced by AAP's specialist desks, which have been set up through the generous support of donors to ensure greater coverage of a subject in the Australian media landscape.

The coverage produced by those desks will remain free from government, corporate, client or factional influence.

AAP's donors include:

• Arts - Balnaves Foundation
• Future Economies - Boundless Earth; McKinnon Family Foundation
• Climate desk - Multiple donors including Groundswell; the Isaacson Davis Foundation
• Indigenous Affairs - Snow Foundation
• Regional and Rural Affairs - Jibb Foundation
• Gender Equality - Minderoo, with additional project support from the Trewalla Foundation
• Transparency and Democracy desk - Rob Keldoulis of Vivcourt

We thank them and many other supporters for their ongoing contribution to sustainable, independent journalism.

- The AAP team