UNB, Dhaka :
Ted Anthony, an award-winning journalist who has reported from 20 countries and pioneered innovative cross-platform story-telling at The Associated Press, has been named Asia-Pacific news director for the news cooperative.
He will oversee more than 100 AP journalists in text, photos and video for a region stretching from India to Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
Anthony succeeds Brian Carovillano, now the AP managing editor for U.S. news.
Anthony will be based in Bangkok and report to the AP’s Vice President and Director of Photography Santiago Lyon, who announced the appointment Wednesday.
Anthony, 45, has a lengthy history in Asia. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, he spent parts of his childhood in Singapore and Beijing and returned to the region in 1997 to cover Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule.
Anthony joined the AP in 1992 in Charleston, W.Va. He has covered stories ranging from the Oklahoma City bombing to Princess Diana’s death to the Olympic Games.
During the 2008 presidential election, he co-wrote and led a yearlong multimedia effort to chronicle the intersection of politics and American culture.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Anthony spent extended periods reporting in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
