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A portrait of Associated Press reporter Dick Pettys, who covered Georgia politics for decades, is unveiled on the Senate floor as his son Beaux, right, thanks legislators and artist Dick Yarbrough Monday, March 10, 2014, in Atlanta. Pettys died in October 2012 at age 66. The portrait painted by Dick Yarbrough was presented Monday in the Senate chamber.(AP Photo/David Tulis)

FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - Pablo Cesar Cano, right, lands a punch against Ashley Theophane in the eighth round during a welterweight fight, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

FILE - In this July 30, 2009, file photo, Anna Johnson, an award-winning journalist with extensive experience working in the U.S. and the Middle East, poses for a photo in Chicago. Johnson has been named deputy editor for The Associated Press’ West region, overseeing coverage from 13 states. The appointment was announced Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by West Editor Traci Carl. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Associated Press editor Ted Anthony poses for a photo in Allison Park, Pa., on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Anthony, 45, who has reported from more than 20 countries since joining the AP in 1992, was named on Wednesday, March 5, as the news cooperative's Asia-Pacific news director, based in Bangkok. (AP Photo/Melissa Rayworth)

The Associated Press executive editor Kathleen Carroll speaks at the International Government Communication Forum, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Carroll called on governments around the world to support an independent press, warning Monday that efforts to silence the media through intimidation and violence are “in effect an attack on a nation’s people.” (AP Photo/Al Moutasim Al Maskery)

In this 2007 photo Ravi Nessman poses for a photo in Sri Lanka. Nessman, 41, who has covered and led award-winning news stories in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the United States, has been named deputy editor for the U.S. South region, overseeing coverage from 13 states and the District of Columbia. Nessman joined AP in 1994 as a reporter in Chicago. He also was a reporter in Newark and Philadelphia and an editor on the International Desk in New York, before embarking on a journalism career overseas where he was news editor overseeing 11 southern African countries, correspondent in Jerusalem and bureau chief in Sri Lanka. (AP Photo)