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Additions to AP’s news leadership team

Executive Editor Julie Pace today announced three key additions to AP’s news leadership team.

Putting the facts on blockchain

Today AP announced it will work with Chainlink to help bring economic, sports and race call data onto blockchains, the decentralized computer networks for recording information in an unalterable way.

Doubling down on journalist safety

Executive Editor Julie Pace today announced that Ian Phillips, vice president for international news, will take on a new assignment focused on journalist safety. Here is her memo to staff:

Celebrating courage in the name of fallen AP photographer

The 2021 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the Pulitzer Prize-winning AP photographer who was killed in 2014 reporting in Afghanistan, has been awarded to Fatima Shbair, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist based in Gaza City.

New roles on senior News leadership team

AP Executive Editor Julie Pace today announced several senior leadership appointments in a memo to global news staff:

AP launches AI readiness survey for local newsrooms

This week AP started surveying local news outlets in the U.S. to assess their readiness to adopt technologies that use artificial intelligence, a first step in the news agency’s two-year commitment to help local newsrooms expand their use of AI tools.

AP 9-11 photos to go on view at Huntsville Museum of Art

A collection of powerful photos from The Associated Press documenting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath will go on display on the 20th anniversary of 9/11 at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama.

SEPT. 2, 2021

Troy Thibodeaux named director of digital news

Deputy Managing Editor Amanda Barrett today announced a key appointment: Troy Thibodeaux, who has led AP’s data journalism since 2013, is now director of digital news:

Global attention for Kabul photo

As the Taliban advanced across Afghanistan over the weekend, an AP photo of a U.S. Chinook helicopter flying over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Sunday was featured on numerous front pages around the world.

AP releases book marking 20th anniversary of 9-11

The Associated Press has released a commemorative book marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

AUG. 11, 2021

Covering the Olympics during a pandemic

AP Deputy Sports Editor Howie Rumberg, in Tokyo for the Summer Games, describes what it’s been like to cover the Olympics in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A kiss for the ages

Nearly a year after taking the Pulitzer-winning picture, AP photographer Emilio Morenatti reconnected with the elderly couple whom he photographed kissing through a plastic sheet during the global pandemic, recounting what he felt at the time.