09/01/2021 1:52 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 09/01/2021 2:16 PM
Julie Pace
, a Washington journalist who has led coverage of the United States government for the past four years, was named executive director and senior vice president of The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Pace, 39, had been the AP's Washington bureau chief since 2017, during which time she guided coverage of the Donald Trump administration, national security and political issues, and the inauguration of Joe Biden.
He rose to head of the publishing division with the promise of accelerating digital transformation.
Pace will succeed Sally Buzbee, who was appointed executive director of The Washington Post in June, and will become
the third woman
in a
row
to lead the news agency's global operations.
This is a growing trend in the world's major media: last July the Spanish journalist María José "Pepa" Bueno was appointed director of the newspaper El País, the second woman to hold this position since the newspaper was founded in 1976.
Earlier, in 2011, Jill Abramson had become the first woman to serve as editor of The New York Times.
He walked away from the newspaper three years later.
Today he teaches English literature at Harvard University.
The journalist Pepa Bueno, director of El País de España.
Pace's appointment was announced by Gary Pruitt, AP president and CEO, and Daisy Veerasingham, the agency's executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Veerasingham will take over as president and CEO at the end of the year
.
"
This is a very exciting time for AP
. We are a 175-year-old news organization with a new CEO and a new CEO," Pruitt said.
"Julie Pace has a vision for the future of AP that is in line with our lifelong values, as well as a forward-looking vision. She will do an excellent job."
Upon assuming his new roles, Pace said it was important to get all AP journalists - text, video, photo, fact-check, and graphic producers - out of their individual bubbles to work together to deliver impactful stories.
"We are in a situation that gives us
the opportunity to really modernize our news report
," Pace said in an interview.
"We have the opportunity to take the fantastic journalism that we do in all formats and think about how we adapt it to the digital world and to society," he said.
Breaking news will continue to be the backbone of the AP's work, but its journalists will accelerate the provision of analysis, context, and fact-checking to those stories.
Pace herself is a symbol of the AP's transition: She
joined the agency in Washington in 2007
as a video producer and was promoted to senior correspondent in the White House.
A frequent guest analyst for CNN, ABC, Fox and other networks, she is comfortable speaking in public, representing a company that is often overlooked despite having reporters in 250 locations in 100 countries.
That's a legacy of AP's history as a wholesaler of news that reaches the public through other media.
AP received two Pulitzer Prizes this year
and was a finalist in three more.
"We fulfill this incredibly vital role in the way people around the world receive information, and I think sometimes we don't get recognized properly," Pace said.
"Millions of people
- more than 1 billion -
receive the AP news every day. There is real power behind what we do."
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