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4 August, 2021, 2:03 pm
The Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday named Daisy Veerasingham as its president and chief executive officer, succeeding Gary Pruitt, who will retire at the end of the year. Picture: REUTERS
(Reuters) – The Associated Press (AP) on Tuesday named Daisy Veerasingham as its president and chief executive officer, succeeding Gary Pruitt, who will retire at the end of the year.
A first-generation British national of Sri Lankan descent, Veerasingham, 51, is the first woman, first person of color and the first person outside the United States to lead the AP.
She will be the fourteenth leader of the 175-year-old U.S. news agency and since February has been its executive vice president and chief operating officer, the AP said.
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Daisy Veerasingham, executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Associated Press, poses for a photo on July 27, 2021, at the AP headquarters in New York. The AP announced Tuesday, Aug. 3, that Veerasingham has been named as its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2022. (AP Photo)
NEW YORK The Associated Press appointed Daisy Veerasingham, its executive vice president and chief operating officer, as the news cooperative s president and CEO on Tuesday, setting her up to replace the retiring Gary Pruitt at the beginning of next year.