05/06/2005

Anthony named editor of new Associated Press service for younger readers

NEW YORK -- Ted Anthony has been named editor of a new service for younger readers to be launched by The Associated Press in September.

The appointment was announced May 2 by Kathleen Carroll, AP senior vice president and executive editor.

Anthony led the group that created the prototype for the project, which is designed to appeal to the 18- to 34-year-old demographic and help AP members reach this crucial audience with bold and innovative online and print content. The new product will be built on AP's journalism, and will be provocative, witty, relevant, engaging and edgy.

Anthony, a national writer for the AP, is currently on leave to write a book called "Chasing the Rising Sun," based on a story he wrote in 2000 about the history of the song, "The House of the Rising Sun." He will assume his new responsibilities on June 6.

Anthony returned to New York last June after three years in Beijing, the last two as news editor. He reported and edited from Pakistan and Afghanistan in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. In April 2003, he was sent to Baghdad, where for two months he was AP's interim Iraq news editor in the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-led war and oversaw the reopening of the bureau there. He has reported from more than 20 countries.

A graduate of Penn State University, Anthony joined the news cooperative in 1992 in Charleston, W.Va., after two years with The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pa. He worked in AP's Philadelphia bureau, the international desk and, from 1996 to 2001, as a national writer.
In 2001, he won the National Headliner Award for feature writing. He also was the 1994 winner of the John L. Dougherty Award, given to AP reporters for excellence in the early stages of their careers. He has conducted numerous writing workshops in AP bureaus, at state meetings and at national writers workshops.