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AP names Howie Rumberg assistant sports editor

Rumberg will be based in New York, where he has worked on the national sports desk in two stints over a 16-year career at the AP. He will report to Deputy Sports Editor Noreen Gillespie. The appointment was announced Thursday by Global Sports Editor Michael Giarrusso. Rumberg will have direct oversight over the New York […]

FEB. 1, 2016

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

The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson ‘s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from. In a controversial verdict, […]

DEC. 3, 2024

Natacha Pisarenko named Southern Cone news director

In a memo to staff on Monday, News Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Eduardo Castillo announced that Natacha Pisarenko will oversee all news coverage in Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. Here is his memo to staff (español abajo):

South Korea’s opposition parties move to impeach president over sudden declaration of martial law

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s opposition parties moved Wednesday to impeach the president over the shocking and short-lived declaration of martial law that drew heavily armed troops to encircle parliament before lawmakers climbed walls to reenter the building and unanimously voted to lift his order. Impeaching Yoon Suk Yeol would require the support […]

DEC. 4, 2024

‘Mr. Baseball’ Bob Uecker, Brewers announcer, dies at 90

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker, who parlayed a forgettable playing career into a punch line for movie and TV appearances as “Mr. Baseball” and a Hall of Fame broadcasting tenure, has died. He was 90. The Milwaukee Brewers, whose games Uecker had broadcast for over half a century, announced his death Thursday morning while calling […]

JAN. 16, 2025

Mississippi reveals its full history for America’s anniversary year, a contrast to federal efforts

The glass panels of the Lynching Victims Monolith are simple, etched with the names of more than 600 victims of documented racial killings in Mississippi, along with the attackers’ motives. One man, Malcolm Wright, was beaten to death in front of his family in 1949. His offense? “Hogging the road.” Further research revealed that his […]

APRIL 12, 2026

Eisenhower biography reissued by AP on D-Day anniversary

The Associated Press and Diversion Books have republished "Dwight D. Eisenhower," a biography by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Relman Morin, on today’s 72nd anniversary of D-Day.

JUNE 6, 2016

AP names Sergio Bustos as Miami-based politics writer

In this Monday, June 22, 2015 photo, Sergio Bustos poses for a photo in Palm Beach Shores, Fla. Bustos, a veteran political journalist, has been hired by The Associated Press as its Miami-based politics reporter, a key position ahead the 2016 elections. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) Bustos, 52, joins the AP from the Miami Herald, where […]

JUNE 23, 2015

Sandy MacIntyre to lead all of AP’s video business

Sandy MacIntyre MacIntyre, an AP vice president since 2010, will immediately assume the title of director of global video news, responsible for the newsgathering and production of 250 video journalists worldwide and 50 others who contribute to the video report. As the AP’s top video news executive, MacIntyre will oversee AP’s two video hubs in […]

MARCH 18, 2013

AP names Roger Schneider as Michigan news editor

Roger Schneider The appointment was announced Friday by David Scott, the AP’s regional editor for the central U.S. In Wisconsin, Schneider has directed the AP’s coverage of news as varied as Gov. Scott Walker’s push to curb the union rights of state workers to this past summer’s deadly shooting at a Sikh temple in suburban […]

JAN. 4, 2013

Steve McMillan named AP Va., W.Va. news editor

In this undated photo Denver Post Business Editor Steve McMillan poses for a photo, in Denver. The Associated Press has named Steve McMillan, a seasoned editor who has overseen such coverage as the foreclosure and financial meltdown and the buyout of Qwest Communications, news editor for Virginia and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Denver Post, Hyoung Chang) […]

JAN. 29, 2014