Women appointed to top positions in news organisations
More women are appointed to lead major news organisations. The Associated Press (AP) has appointed the agency’s Assistant Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief, Julie Pace, to be its senior vice president and executive editor, effective immediately. This means that two of the world’s most important news agencies, AP and Reuters, both will have strong women in top management.
AP recently appointed Daisy Veerasingham to be AP’s new CEO – the first woman to hold the position at the 175 year old agency.
Reuters’ new editor-in-chief is Alessandra Galloni – the first woman to hold the position at the 170 year old news agency – and Gina Chua recently took up the position as the agency’s executive editor.
Pace, who joined AP in 2007 as a video producer, spent the last four years directing multiformat coverage of U.S. politics and elections, national security and domestic policy. She has earlier been a White House reporter and chief correspondent.
In her new role as senior vice president and executive editor, Pace will lead AP’s global news operations and oversee news content in all formats. She will relocate from Washington to AP headquarters in New York.
Pace is the third consecutive woman to serve as AP executive editor. A woman has held that role since 2002. Pace will report to Veerasingham, who is the first woman, first person of colour and first non-U.S. citizen to hold the position of president and CEO.
The newsroom of USA Today is now predominately female, website thehill.com reports.
Women make up 51.7 per cent of all journalists at the newspaper, which also saw gains in its percentage of Black employees, at 13.6 per cent; Hispanic staffers, 10.1 per cent; and Asian American employees, 7 per cent. Overall, journalists of colour account for 34 per cent of the newsroom, USA Today Editor-in-Chief Nicole Carroll Carroll wrote.
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