AP in the News

FILE - This 2012 file photo shows Kathy Gannon, left, Associated Press special correspondent for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus in Afghanistan. A Kabul court announced Wednesday, July 23, 2014 that the Afghan police officer charged with killing Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus and wounding veteran AP correspondent Kathy Gannon has been convicted and sentenced to death.(AP Photo, File)

In this July 10, 2014 photo, Michael Weissenstein poses for a portrait in Mexico City. Weissenstein has been appointed The Associated Press chief of bureau in Havana, the third bureau chief the news cooperative has had in Cuba since it reopened an office on the island in 1999. The 39-year-old Weissenstein has been a correspondent in Mexico City for the last two years, reporting throughout Latin America and helping coordinate coverage of Mexico and Central America. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

This Feb. 2, 2009 photo shows Maud Beelman in Dallas. On Tuesday, July 15, 2014, Beelman, a veteran investigative journalist who as a foreign correspondent covered the reunification of Germany and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, has been named to a new position overseeing news coverage and editorial operations for The Associated Press in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Beelman, 56, joins the AP from The Dallas Morning News, where she is deputy managing editor for investigations and enterprise. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Evans Caglage)

In this photo taken on Friday, May 2, 2014, Associated Press correspondent Peter Leonard poses for a photograph in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine. The Associated Press has named Peter Leonard to be its correspondent for Ukraine, whose Western-leaning government is struggling to unite the nation in the face of a deadly insurgency. The appointment was announced Tuesday by Caro Kriel, AP's incoming Europe news director. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

This July 1, 2014 photo shows Shelley Acoca in New York. Acoca, a veteran editor who has worked at the Miami Herald, Newsday and most recently Fox News Magazine, has been hired as The Associated Press’ East Coast Entertainment & Lifestyles Editor. She will oversee writers and editors across varying beats, from television to music to food and fashion and will help anchor coverage of major events such as the Grammy Awards. (AP Photo)

**HOLD FOR WEDNESDAY MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT** In this Tuesday, June 24, 2014 photo, Lisa Gibb, the Associated Press' new business editor, poses for photos in the Miami. She will beginning her new job Aug. 1. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

In this June 19, 2014 photo, Vivian Salama, The Associated Press' new Baghdad Bureau Chief, poses for a picture at AP headquarters in New York. Salama, 34, succeeds Adam Schreck, who is now based in Dubai and oversees AP coverage of the Gulf Arab countries as well as Iran. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Associated Press Executive Editor and Senior Vice President Kathleen Carroll speaks at the rededication of the Journalists Memorial at the Newseum in Washington, Monday, June 9, 2014. The memorial, which recognizes journalists killed while covering the news, added 10 names of journalists who were killed in 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)