In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Vice President of News, Standards and Inclusion Amanda Barrett announced two key appointments to AP’s standards team: Anna Jo Bratton as Stylebook editor and Rob Rossi as Standards manager:
At a moment of heightened political polarization in the U.S. and around the world, it’s more important than ever that AP journalism is fact-based and nonpartisan. Our customers and audiences around the world rely on us because of our high standards.
I am thrilled to announce two new additions to the Standards team who will help ensure we continue to deliver on our mission. Anna Jo Bratton is taking on the role of AP Stylebook editor and Rob Rossi is our newest Standards manager.
Anna Jo Bratton. (Courtesy of Anna Jo Bratton)
Anna Jo has served on the Stylebook committee for more than a decade. She played a critical role in devising guidance around business, technology and disabilities and other topics and has taught Stylebook workshops on writing and style for communication professionals. In her new role, she’ll work closely with news teams to develop style guidance and will be an ambassador for the AP across the industry.
Anna Jo comes to us from the Top Stories Hub, where she has edited stories from around the globe. She started at AP in 2007 as a political reporter in Nebraska and held a variety of editing roles in the West Region, based in Phoenix, before serving as U.S. enterprise editor and global enterprise editor in New York. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a degree in journalism in 2003.
Rob Rossi.
Rob, who is also based in New York, has been a journalist for more than 30 years. He started as a reporter at American Lawyer Media and rose to managing editor before joining The Wall Street Journal in 2000. He worked there on the copy desk and then became a news editor for politics, economics and international news and then health and science and U.S. news. In 2014, he became the deputy editor for newsroom standards, working from Hong Kong for two years, before returning to the U.S. to serve as a standards editor for another eight years. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
