AP’s global markets editor gets new job

Jonathan Fahey, the AP’s global markets editor, has been named global health editor for The Associated Press, overseeing a team of journalists to cover medicine, public health, the health care business and consumer health issues. An AP story states, “The appointment was announced Monday by Marjorie Miller, AP’s vice president of global news and enterprise.”‘We […]

AP, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters win ethics award

A group of Associated Press reporters who uncovered slaves used to catch fish sold at large retailers and restaurants and Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters who disclosed the newspaper’s new owner were named winners of the 16th annual Ancil Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism on Tuesday. The awards are administered by the University of Oregon School […]

AP names Keller to its markets team

Associated Press business editor Lisa Gibbs sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Everyone, I’m happy to announce that Greg Keller will be joining our department coming to work on the Markets team in New York City. The move marks Greg’s return to full-time business news. Greg has been with the AP since 2008 in Paris, where […]

AP’s series on slave fishing wins Selden Ring Award

Reporters from the Associated Press have won USC Annenberg’s 2016 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, for a series of stories that showed how seafood sold in U.S. grocery stores and restaurants had been produced by slaves. Their work prompted reforms and prosecutions – and the release of more than 2,000 people who had been […]

WSJ’s Wong named AP’s news director for China

Wall Street Journal technology reporter Gillan Wong has been named news director for China for the Associated Press. An AP story states, “Wong, who currently covers technology at The Wall Street Journal, will be based in Beijing as the AP’s greater China news director. In that role, she will oversee coverage in video, text and photos, across […]

How AP stories are changing how retailers purchase fish and shrimp

A team of four Associated Press reporters disclosed earlier this week that grocery stores and restaurants across the world, including Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, are selling shrimp peeled by slaves. That story has prompted exporters and retailers to promise changes this week in the system of exporting and purchasing fish. The story, by Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, […]

AP personal finance editor joins New York Fed

Trevor Delaney, the personal finance editor for the Associated Press, left the wire service last month and is now working for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a senior editor. Delaney joined the AP in 2008 to create a personal finance news service for the AP and since 2012 has been running Money […]

AP names team leader for breaking news

Associated Press business editor Lisa Gibbs sent out the following announcement: I am happy to announce that Amir Bibawy will be our new team leader for Breaking News and Digital Strategy. He will run the spot desk from NYC and help us drive ahead on optimizing our coverage for an audience that increasingly gets most news on […]

AP assistant biz editor Patterson leaving for USA Today

Associated Press business editor Lisa Gibbs sent out the following announcement to the staff: Assistant business editor Philana Patterson has accepted a position at USA Today, as deputy Money editor in New York City. Philana accomplished a long list of important initiatives during her eight years-plus with Business News. The most notable was the launch of earnings […]

AP’s Ferrara joins Bankrate.com as chief content officer

Lou Ferrara, the Associated Press’s former vice president and managing editor who announced he was leaving the newswire two weeks ago, begins a new job today as chief content officer of Bankrate.com, a financial news and ratings publication. Kelsey Sutton of Politico writes, “Ferrara worked at the Associated Press for more than 10 years, notably […]