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Ronayne to lead Associated Press coverage from Sacramento

Kathleen Ronayne. (AP Photo) In her new role, Ronayne will oversee AP’s largest statehouse bureau. She also will have a leadership role in political coverage in California, including the 2018 election that features a crowded field to replace outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown. Her appointment was announced Thursday by West Region News Director Anna Johnson, who […]

MAY 4, 2017

Juliet Williams named news editor in San Francisco

The appointment was announced Thursday by Interim West Region Editor Anna Johnson, who oversees news for 13 states. In her new role Williams will supervise AP staff in San Francisco and Fresno, and be responsible for news coverage throughout Northern California. Juliet Williams poses outside the state Capitol in Sacramento, California, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP […]

NOV. 17, 2016

Skoloff named to lead video across AP’s West region

Brian Skoloff (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) Skoloff will oversee and drive video coverage across 13 Western states from the regional hub in Phoenix, working closely with video journalists and contributing text reporters and photographers across the territory while collaborating with video editors in Washington and London. Skoloff takes on this important role as the West […]

APRIL 10, 2019

New beat team for migration coverage

AP today announced the creation of an all-formats beat team that will cover migration in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. News Director for Europe and Africa Anna Johnson sent this memo to staff:

AP video journalist, translator killed in Gaza

This Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, photo shows Associated Press video journalist Simone Camilli in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip. Camilli, 35, was killed in an ordnance explosion in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, together with Palestinian translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash and three members of the Gaza police. Police said four other people […]

AUG. 13, 2014

Executive editor on why AP sought Newtown 911 tapes

The Associated Press sought the 911 calls made during the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., where the gunman, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, killed 20 children and six educators. On Wednesday, the calls were posted on the town’s website after AP prevailed in a monthslong legal effort to obtain them.

TIME names Muhammed Muheisen best wire photographer of 2013

The Associated Press today is publishing an article about serious blunders at the Central Intelligence Agency and an effort to cover them up. At the heart of the story is a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, who was recruited as a spy by a rogue group of analysts inside the CIA. Without any authority to do so, the analysts sent Levinson into Iran, where he disappeared in 2007.

Persistence and source work pay on big political story

In a note to staff, Managing Editor for U.S. News Brian Carovillano explains how a reporter who cultivated sources on the statehouse beat kept AP ahead on a story that resonated beyond state borders:

AP names Anna Jo Bratton to post of US Enterprise Editor

U.S. Enterprise Editor Anna Jo Bratton. (AP Photo/Cheyanne Mumphrey) In her new role, Bratton, 39, also will identify and help manage a portfolio of collaborations with AP customers and nonprofit news organizations in the U.S., seeking to produce unique stories that break news and amplify the strengths of participating organizations. The appointment was announced Friday […]

FEB. 26, 2021

Andrew Selsky named APs Salem Oregon correspondent

Andrew Selsky The appointment was announced Tuesday by West Editor Traci Carl, who oversees news for 13 states. “Andrew is an accomplished reporter who has excelled in assignments across the world for AP,” Carl said. “He will bring a unique perspective to the West, from the changing economic landscape to the legalization of marijuana in […]

JAN. 26, 2016

Ravi Nessman named deputy for AP’s South region

Ravi Nessman The appointment was announced Thursday by South Editor Lisa Marie Pane. Nessman was the South Asia bureau chief from 2009 until 2013, when he left to become a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, where he has been studying the role of poverty and religion in modern society. Based in New Delhi, he managed […]

FEB. 20, 2014

AP names news director for East-Central Europe

Fisnik Abrashi at Associated Press’ London office, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. Abrashi, an AP correspondent and editor who covered wars and their aftermath on three continents, has been appointed all-formats news director for central and eastern Europe, responsible for leading video, photo and text coverage in a region stretching from the Balkans to Poland, it […]

FEB. 7, 2014