Press Releases

11/12/2007

Mike Silverman named senior managing editor as AP reorganizes news operation

By JEREMY HERRON
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press promoted Managing Editor Mike Silverman to the new position of senior managing editor Monday, and named news executives John Daniszewski, Lou Ferrara and Kristin Gazlay as managing editors. The moves come amid a reorganization of operations at the news cooperative.

Silverman, 63, will maintain responsibility for the overall daily news report while leading a restructuring of the company's national, regional, state and Washington news operations, according to Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll, who announced the new management plan. He has been managing editor since 2000.

As part of the restructuring, he will oversee creation of a top-story editing operation at AP's New York headquarters designed to "give the best possible treatment to the very top stories of the day," Carroll said in a statement.

Gazlay, 49, formerly one of four deputy managing editors, takes over responsibility for planning global training of the AP news staff while keeping her oversight of financial news.

Ferrara, 37, who had been deputy managing editor for sports and multimedia, will oversee the sports and entertainment news operations as well as a restructuring of the graphics and online news departments.

Daniszewski, 54, who has been the AP's international editor, will oversee all international news operations, including a refinement of regional editing desks in London, Bangkok and Mexico City.

Deputy managing editors Sally Jacobsen and Tom Kent will take on new duties as part of the reorganization, Carroll said. Jacobsen will add news budgeting responsibilities to her oversight of the lifestyles and news research departments and the AP Stylebook. Kent will lead planning for a "new flexible, transparent and cross-format content system that will enable all of AP's journalists to work together easily," Carroll said.

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