Julie Pace named new Associated Press executive editor

[George II]

Source: Associated Press

9:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Julie Pace, a longtime Washington journalist who managed coverage of the U.S. government during a period of historic tumult, was named Wednesday as the executive editor and senior vice president of The Associated Press.

The 39-year-old Pace has been the AP’s Washington bureau chief since 2017, guiding reporting on the Trump administration, national security, politics and the new Biden White House. She rose to the newsroom’s top leadership spot with a promise to accelerate the AP’s digital transformation.

Pace succeeds Sally Buzbee, who became executive editor of The Washington Post in June, and is the third consecutive woman to lead the AP’s worldwide news operation. Her appointment is effective immediately and was announced by Gary Pruitt, AP president and CEO, and Daisy Veerasingham, executive vice president and chief operating officer. Veerasingham will become president and chief executive at the end of the year.

“This is a very exciting time for the AP — we’re a 175-year-old news organization with a new CEO and a new executive editor,” Pruitt said. “Julie Pace has a vision for AP’s future that is in line with our long-standing values but also forward-thinking. She will do an excellent job.”

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1. The Washington Post has noticeably deteriorated since Buzbee became Executive Editor.

More Democrat bashing, more Republican apologists, some really stupid opinion pieces by the Editorial Board, and more pieces by the right-wing nuts like Hugh Hewitt and Republican apologist Gary Abernathy. George Will regularly opines about ideas that haven’t been relevant in a decade. Their headline writers are atrocious, and their coverage of the Afghanistan withdrawal was just over the top—of course, the rest of the media did the same. They’re still reporting Republican lies as if they have merit. I’m taking a wait and see attitude for now rather than cancelling my subscription, but based on a number of reader comments quite a few people are not happy with their current direction.