After Syria attack, reporter shares father’s heartbreaking farewell
A staff memo by Jerry Schwartz, deputy director of top stories and enterprise, describes how Beirut reporter Sarah El Deeb came to interview a father who lost his two children, his wife and other relatives in a chemical attack in Syria, and persisted in finding ways to bring the family’s story to the world in all formats:
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Producing distinctive, compelling journalism
In a memo to global news staff, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Sally Buzbee outlined two new assignments aimed at furthering AP’s enterprise reporting and visual storytelling:
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New managing editor and deputy managing editor for operations are named
Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Sally Buzbee today announced two key appointments: Brian Carovillano is the new managing editor and David Scott becomes the new deputy managing editor for operations.
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Making a case for a singular ‘they’
During a panel at the American Copy Editors Society national conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday, it was announced that the 2017 AP Stylebook will include guidance on the limited use of “they” as a singular pronoun.
Continue reading >Chronicling ‘the unraveling of a nation’
The Overseas Press Club announced today that AP Venezuela correspondent Hannah Dreier has won its award for the best newspaper, news service or digital reporting from abroad.
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