Associated Press business editor Hal Ritter was named a Kansan of the Year by the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Here is an excerpt:
Best accomplishment: Built two of four newsrooms at USA Today — Money and News. Made the Money section competitive with The Wall Street Journal. As managing editor/news, made the weakest section of the newspaper competitive with The New York Times.
Future project or goal: Make AP Business News as good as or better than every AP competitor. “Responsibility for global coverage of business and financial news means a chance to shape coverage of the biggest story of my career, perhaps the biggest story of our time,” he said.Â
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