Digital storytelling takes readers inside death chamber
In a memo to staff, Deep South News Editor Jim Van Anglen recounted how a reporter worked with an interactive editor and producer to go beyond traditional coverage of executions in the U.S., taking people inside Georgia’s execution chamber to hear the inmates’ last words:
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AP receives 4 awards from Deadline Club
We were pleased to receive four awards on Monday evening from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Continue reading >AP names White House, national security editors
Acting Washington Bureau Chief Wendy Benjaminson sent this memo to her staff today, announcing two key appointments:
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Veteran editor Amanda Barrett named Nerve Center director
AP Managing Editor Brian Carovillano today announced a key appointment: Amanda Barrett, news manager of the Nerve Center, will now lead the New York hub of AP’s global newsroom, a center for news coordination, client engagement and audience development.
Continue reading >Honoring courage in the name of fallen AP photographer
The 2017 Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award, named for the AP photojournalist who was killed reporting in Afghanistan in 2014, has been awarded to Stephanie Sinclair, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covers gender and human rights issues around the world.
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