Angela Charlton named Western Europe news director
In a memo to staff, AP Europe and Africa News Director Anna Johnson today announced that Bureau Chief Angela Charlton is now AP’s Western Europe news director, a new position responsible for leading all formats in France, Belgium and the Netherlands:
AP’s top editor: Facts ‘foundational’ in 2020 election
Speaking to media executives and journalists at the News Xchange conference in Paris on Wednesday, AP Executive Editor Sally Buzbee underscored the importance of factual reporting in covering the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Securing video exclusives in Paris attack, Philippines plot
Quick thinking and persistence enabled The Associated Press to lead with its video coverage of terrorism on two continents in the same week: an attack on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and Islamic militants plotting an assault in the Philippines.
Calling on governments to create ‘a culture of safety for journalism’
A UNESCO conference in Paris sought to attract decision makers of news organizations so they could share good practices on the safety of journalists and “more proactively highlight the issue of journalist safety.”
After the attacks, teamwork in Paris and beyond
John Daniszewski, vice president for international news, noted the speed and accuracy of AP journalists in Paris from the moment the deadly attacks began last Friday.