AP reporters win Shadid Award for investigating palm oil industry
Reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press have won the 2021 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics from the Center for Journalism Ethics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for their investigative series on palm oil labor abuses. Mason and McDowell interviewed more than 130 current and former palm oil workers in Indonesia […]
AP econ reporter Boak moving to White House team
Associated Press economics reporter Josh Boak is moving to the news service’s White House team. He will be focused on President-elect Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, both the policies his administration is championing and the impact of those policies on Americans. Boak has been an economics reporter for the AP since November 2013. He previously was […]
AP reporters win award for cosmetics working conditions investigation
The Sidney Hillman Foundation announced that Margie Mason and Robin McDowell of the Associated Press won the December Sidney Award for “Rape, abuses in palm oil fields linked to top beauty brands,” which exposes the horrific working conditions endured by millions of women who work on plantations in Southeast Asia, producing the palm oil that finds […]
Remembering AP deputy tech editor Jesdanun, a runner
Sarah Lorge Butler of Runners World writes about former AP deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun, a runner who died last month from COVID-19. Butler writes, “After he started running in his 30s, the sport became embedded in his life. He ran to work at the Associated Press, where he was a technology writer. He’d run home. […]
Washington Post hires AP’s Lerman to cover breaking tech news
Washington Post business editor David Cho, deputy business editor Zachary Goldfarb and technology editor Christina Passariello sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are excited to announce that Rachel Lerman will be The Washington Post’s breaking news technology reporter in San Francisco. Rachel joins us from the Associated Press, where she covered technology with […]
AP deputy tech editor Jesdanun dies from coronavirus
Associated Press deputy tech editor Nick Jesdanun has died from the coronavirus, numerous sources reported Friday. He was 51. AP national writer Ted Anthony writes, “Jesdanun, known as Nick, was the first AP reporter to be given the ‘internet writer’ byline two decades ago, when the world was less than 10 years into using the […]
Dow Jones Newswires hires Wright as publishing editor
Stephen Wright has been hired as a publishing editor for Dow Jones Newswires in Wellington, New Zealand. He returns to Dow Jones after more than a decade in various roles for the Associated Press in Asia, mostly recently a regional reporter based in Jakarta. Wright is a former Asia business editor for AP and Thailand […]
AP reporters win award for trade coverage
Paul Wiseman, Joe McDonald and Anne D’Innocenzio of The Associated Press have won the National Press Foundation’s inaugural Hinrich Foundation Award for Distinguished Reporting on Trade. The reporters will receive the award at NPF’s annual journalism awards dinner on Thursday, Feb. 13. More details on the dinner, and other award winners, can be seen here. NPF […]
Facebook offers millions to Dow Jones, Bloomberg, but nothing to Reuters and AP
Facebook has offered millions to Dow Jones and Bloomberg to put its content on its new news page, but hasn’t offered money to rival wire services Reuters and the Associate Press, reports Anna Nicolau and Alex Barker of the Financial Times. Nicolau and Barker report, “The social media giant has offered no money to Reuters […]
Deputy economics editor Mullaney departs AP
Tomoko Hosaka Mullaney, deputy economics editor at the Associated Press, has left the news organization. Mullaney is now vice president of The Asia Group in Washington, working on Japanese business and policy issues. Mullaney was with the AP since May 2014. She helped guide editorial and storytelling strategy and operations for AP’s Washington, D.C.-based economy […]
