Ms. Pace is the third consecutive female executive editor of the 175-year-old news organization, which provides roughly 730,000 articles, 70,000 videos and one million photographs each year to the more than 15,000 outlets and businesses that subscribe to its content. Kathleen Carroll held the job from 2002 through 2016.
Ms. Pace, who is from Buffalo, joined The A.P. in 2007 as a video producer and multimedia political journalist after starting her career at a television network in South Africa and putting in a stint at The Tampa Tribune in Florida. She aspired to be an international correspondent working out of Africa, she said, but things turned out differently.
“I just really got into politics, and I’ve been in Washington ever since,” Ms. Pace said.
After serving as a White House correspondent, she became the Washington bureau chief in 2017. In that job, she expanded The A.P.’s fact-checking operation and published explanatory articles on how the news agency counts votes and projects the winners of presidential elections and local races, a role it has played since 1848.
“I’m really proud of the work that we did during that period to try to break through what ultimately ended up being a lot of disinformation,” Ms. Pace said, adding that The A.P.’s fact-checking articles “are consistently some of our most-viewed stories, almost every week.”
“Being a fact-based news organization does not mean that everybody on every side of an issue gets equal hearing, gets equal voice,” she continued. “In certain cases, the facts are just really clear, and we want to make sure that we are amplifying the facts and not muddying the facts. So Covid vaccines are safe. Climate change is real. There was no widespread fraud in the U.S. election. Those are not political positions; those are fact-based positions.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/business/media/associated-press-new-editor.html
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