In the new film The Promise, opening Friday and set in 1915 against the backdrop of the Armenian Genocide, Christian Bale plays Chris Myers, an Associated Press reporter based in Paris. It’s a fictitious composite, inspired in part by the work of that era’s AP Constantinople correspondent J. Damon Theron.
Current AP film writer Jake Coyle, in a piece about the movie’s journalism aspects, reminds that the wire service had a firm no-bylines policy in place until 1921.
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