‘Dedication and commitment’ in Israel-Gaza coverage
Since Oct. 7, AP staff in Israel and Gaza have worked in extremely challenging conditions and often at great personal risk to offer the world a crucial window into the Israel-Gaza war.
AP announces appointments for key Middle East posts
In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Vice President and Head of Global Newsgathering Paul Haven and Middle East News Director Karin Laub announced key appointments for news leaders in two important sub-regions:
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.
‘Our safe place’: News director recounts former Gaza bureau in interview
AP’s news director for Israel, Palestine and Jordan, Joe Federman, joined Israel’s Channel 12 foreign affairs program “World Order” on Saturday to discuss the destruction of AP’s bureau in Gaza.
