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AP promotes Gwizdowski and Kaiser

Gwizdowski’s appointment is part of a restructuring that centralizes all revenue-generating operations in the Americas under a single director. The AP’s Americas region includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean. All revenue units in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia already report to Daisy Veerasingham, the company’s senior […]

FEB. 6, 2014

Petesch appointed AP West Africa correspondent

In this photo taken in Jan. 2014, Carley Petesch reports at a fruit market in Lagos, Nigeria. Carley Petesch, a longtime editor in Africa who has reported from Nigeria and South Africa for The Associated Press, has been named a West Africa correspondent for the news organization. The appointment was announced Thursday Feb. 26, 2015 […]

FEB. 26, 2015

Describing what’s happening at the US border

With immigration and the U.S. border back in the news, it is especially imperative for the AP to consistently use accurate and neutral language in its coverage along with giving proper context to border numbers given the political rhetoric on the topic.

AP’s reporting from Honduras, Gaza and Syria wins prestigious awards

Associated Press journalists have won a number of prestigious awards for their work covering a variety of difficult stories spanning from Latin America to the Middle East.

AP announces East, West Africa appointments

In a memo to staff on Wednesday, News Director for Europe and Africa Anna Johnson announced two appointments in Africa:

Shining a light on the dark side of CBD craze

In a memo to staff on Friday, AP Managing Editor Brian Carovillano described the backstory of a nationwide, multiformat effort that identified CBD products spiked with dangerous synthetic drugs and exposed some of the people behind them:

Spotlight on migrant perils at the border

In a memo to staff, Managing Editor Brian Carovillano outlined the backdrop behind a searing photo of a father and daughter from El Salvador who drowned in the Rio Grande attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and subsequent all-formats reporting that provided important, relevant context to member news organizations and customers:

What is AP? CEO explains in op-ed

In an editorial published on Sunday by several AP member news organizations, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt outlined the news cooperative’s standards, origins and structure:

AP news exec John Daniszewski named to Pulitzer Prize board

John Daniszewski John Daniszewski, a top news executive at the Associated Press with deep experience in the coverage of major world news events, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today. Daniszewski became AP’s vice president and senior managing editor for international news in 2009 after three decades as a reporter, […]

MAY 1, 2013

In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the sea

Some four miles off the Southern California coast, a company is betting it can solve one of desalination’s biggest problems by moving the technology deep below the ocean’s surface. OceanWell’s planned Water Farm 1 would use natural ocean pressure to power reverse osmosis — a process that forces seawater through membranes to filter out salt […]

JAN. 15, 2026

David Biller named by AP as its news director for Brazil

Brazil News Director David Biller. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) The announcement was made Wednesday by Matt Chandler, AP’s news director for Latin America and the Caribbean. “David will lead a talented and energetic text, photo and video team that has consistently provided fast, engaging and insightful coverage of stories that have resounded in Latin America and […]

OCT. 9, 2019

When news breaks, ‘everyone is a reporter’ at AP

In a memo to AP staff, Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano explains how quick-thinking and collaboration across states and formats led to definitive coverage of a tragic story that captured national attention: