Oversee company-wide initiative to develop and execute intersectional stories about American and global culture and trends that appeal to multiple audiences. Work with AP journalists around the world to help augment the news they cover with stories that help make sense of that news and how it fits into society. Write frequent stories about culture and how life is changing in the 21st century.

Works with AP journalists and news leaders worldwide to conceive and build out new forms of content and new products powered by AP’s global reporting presence and expertise. Drives execution of innovative content on the fly in daily all-formats news report. Helps lead changes in newsroom workflow and journalism approaches designed to create conditions for continuing innovation and digital audience growth. News Department co-lead of AP Productions team, which collaborates with partners and external studios to turn AP content and expertise into longer-form storytelling for streaming, podcast and movie platforms. Senior editor overseeing AP’s “crossover stories” and explanatory journalism initiatives to drive the creation of news content more attuned to the consumption patterns of digital audiences. Helps develop closer partnerships between AP and its U.S. customers through localization guides for major national and international stories. Writes regularly about American culture and world affairs.

Led multiformat team of 20 of AP's highest-level journalists and editors doing in-depth enterprise work and immersive storytelling in partnership with colleagues across the global newsroom. Devised strategic plan for future of department. Project-managed and led successful nationwide search for permanent Global Enterprise editor. Edited stories that resulted in multiple internal awards and nominations in external contests. Worked to reshape department's position in larger AP as not only a home for top-end work but an incubator for some of the best and most thoughtful stories across the organization.

Co-founder and creative lead for personal storytelling company that uses journalism skills and practices to tell individual and family stories for clients looking to develop, research and preserve narratives about themselves and their world for future generations. Clients include parents, seniors with growing memory issues and people seeking assistance with “narrative resets” at critical moments in their lives. Tagline: “We’ve told the world’s stories. Let us tell yours.”

Led development of experimentation and new content and programming in AP's global newsroom, and focused innovation efforts around the world to turn them into products and approaches that benefit AP's customers and create better journalism that stands out in a competitive media environment. Worked closely with editors of daily news report to innovate in small form in ways that encouraged engagement by digital audiences. Co-led organization-wide initiatives on social media and speed of news to market. Founding member of AP Productions team, which works with partners to develop documentary projects on digital and OTT platforms. Founded and oversaw AP's "Ripples" coverage, which chronicles the impact of major events like the pandemic and political polarization on society and culture. Wrote regularly about American culture and world affairs.

As senior news executive in Asia, oversaw 200 AP staff and freelance journalists in text, photos and video for a region stretching from India to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, and including operations in North Korea. Responsible for directing coverage of breaking news and enterprise journalism and developing strategy for new and innovative forms of storytelling for a diverse customer base in Asia and around the world. Led negotiations with governments in North Korea, Myanmar and China advocating increased press access for AP journalists. Ensured staff safety and oversaw hiring across the region. Acted as advocate for vivid, probing, often visually driven journalism that increased understanding of Asia for a global audience while also serving regional customers with less American-inflected content. Partnered with AP's Asia-Pacific sales team to match news coverage to customer and subscriber needs in one of the world's most competitive markets.

Member of news leadership team charged with creating, promoting and delivering distinctive content across AP's multiple global platforms with an emphasis on mobile and digital products. Drive strategic projects in newsroom and collaborate with colleagues to generate alternative forms of storytelling that will both serve AP's primary customers and appeal to end-users' instincts to share content in social spaces. Key manager in AP's Nerve Center, the nucleus of the news organization's global headquarters. Frequent writer and content producer responsible for helping model unusual and innovative storytelling within the news service.

Part of management team overseeing the AP Nerve Center, a global headquarters operation that works closely with AP's regional and department leaders to deliver comprehensive, competitive coverage of the day's top stories in all formats. As manager overseeing AP's global news report on weekends, focus on sharpening worldwide coverage of breaking news during that period and work with regional editors on AP's in-depth enterprise report. Help foster product development in AP newsrooms and maintain relationships with customers across the spectrum, from online portals to member newspapers. Leader in multiple strategic AP projects to develop new content and serve new markets. Act as editor/mentor to newspeople across the world and work with them to develop and execute memorable journalism.

Wrote long- and shorter-form essays, explanatory pieces and narratives as part of an ongoing series about the effect of the American economy's problems on the culture and how life in the United States is reconfiguring itself because of the global economic crisis. Generated cross-platform ideas to accompany, and in some cases stand in place of, text storytelling. Oversaw AP strategic projects to develop storytelling and news on social media platforms, including managing AP-wide blog with Yahoo! News on 2009 Supreme Court confirmation hearings and co-administering multi-agency Facebook blog on global climate-change conference. Administered AP's worldwide efforts to maintain consistent policies and best practices on the use of anonymity and source reporting in the multiformat news report.

Covered 2008 campaign as lead writer and co-producer of a year-long project, "Measure of a Nation," that examined the presidency and the election through the prism of American culture. Wrote deeply reported, long-form essays on the intersection of politics and culture and how each informs the other in America. Managed multimedia content related to the series that appeared on AP's Hosted News platform and Online Video Network. Worked with AP political and domestic reporters to develop content related to the elections and American culture at large.

Founding editor of AP multimedia service, an initiative aimed at attracting 21st-century readers to new forms of news content and transcending the print-and-photos culture of the world’s oldest newsgathering organization. Oversaw staff of 27 journalists creating innovative content aimed at hosted product and Web sites and print editions of more than 360 newspapers at its height. Responsible for administering budget, hiring staff and freelancers, training, soliciting and directing coverage from AP bureaus across the world and working with company’s business, marketing and technology departments. Part of companywide effort to reframe AP journalists’ notions of storytelling for a digital era. Contributed stories across the service as schedule permitted, including text, podcasts and photo packages/audio slideshows.

Oversaw coverage of China for world's largest newsgathering organization. With bureau chief, supervised AP's China staff of more than a dozen journalists, researchers and support staff and planned/executed coverage during major generational leadership transition of Chinese government. Served as lead political and cultural reporter in bureau while simultaneously undertaking frequent long-term post 9/11 assignments to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Re-opened and supervised AP's Baghdad bureau in the weeks after Saddam Hussein's government fell. On temporary assignment from China, oversaw nearly two dozen journalists covering combat and immediate post-combat news in still-volatile environments across Iraq. Hired translators, drivers and monitors, handled finances and oversaw safety and security issues for AP text and photo operations. Worked closely with communications experts to build technological infrastructure for bureau that ensured timely filing of material.

Covered China from AP bureau in Beijing; assigned to Pakistan and Afghanistan for extended reporting/editing stints after 9/11.

Covered America for world's largest newsgathering organization. Wrote long-form enterprise and features about the American landscape, mass culture and changing communities and took assignments as needed to major breaking news events such as Princess Diana's death, Mark McGwire's 62nd home run, the crash of TWA Flight 800, the Columbine High School shootings and the 1998 and 2000 Olympics in Japan and Australia. Entered for Pulitzer Prize by AP in 1998 and 2001 and winner of 2001 National Headliner Award for Feature Writing.

Part of supervisory rotation responsible for directing and driving breaking news coverage across the globe and editing stories from correspondents overseas. Assisted in coverage of United Nations and trained for posting as AP foreign correspondent.

Reporter and supervisory editor for AP in Charleston, W.Va., and Philadelphia. Covered major stories including struggles of coal industry and its communities in Appalachia, economic and medical/science issues in Philadelphia and professional sports. Regularly responsible for state news reports relied upon by more than 150 newspapers and radio/TV stations.

Roving Pennsylvania state reporter, 1991-1992, with open brief to range around the state and develop enterprise stories as part of outward push into counties beyond core circulation area; police/fire/courts/general assignment reporter, 1990-1991; full-time freelancer while college student, 1989-1990. Frequently took own photos for assignments and developed graphics on early Adobe platforms.