During a wide-ranging conversation with Barron’s, AP President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham discussed the future of the news industry and how The Associated Press continues to make itself indispensable to its thousands of customers around the world.
“I think the role that we play is still as important today as it has ever been,” she said during an interview with “At Barron’s” hosted by Andy Serwer.
As a global news organization, AP journalism is seen by billions of people around the world every day. AP maintains clients in nearly 150 countries who all rely on the news agency for the same thing: independent, nonpartisan and accurate journalism.
“I think one of the most amazing things about the AP is, if you take any news market in the world and you look at the different organizations there — they have different political leanings, they have different ideological leanings — and the AP provides the same news report to every single news organization every single day,” Veerasingham said. “We don’t change it, and we don’t nuance it — and that really gets to the heart of how we are nonpartisan.”
She added: “People want to just have the facts. They just want to have the facts and they want to make their own decision or conclusion about what’s going on, and that’s the role the AP plays.”
