Countering misinformation, AI in US elections
Speaking to technology industry executives at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday, Executive Editor Julie Pace outlined the biggest challenges news organizations expect to see this election cycle: misinformation and generative AI.
Mark Grant named VP of global security and safety
In a memo to staff on Tuesday, Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Julie Pace announced that Mark Grant has been named AP’s new vice president for global security and safety:
Reporters reveal anatomy of Russian hack
After hackers exposed 50,000 emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in 2016, a team of AP journalists traced the digital footprints that led from his account and others back to Moscow.
How to gather international news in a perilous world
When more than two dozen international editors convened in Boston on Friday for the International Press Institute/Associated Press Foreign Editors’ Circle, they discussed the challenges journalists face when working abroad.