John Daniszewski became AP’s vice president for standards and editor at large in July 2016 after more than 10 years as AP’s international editor. Before that, he had spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent for the AP and The Los Angeles Times, covering many of the major international news stories of the time, including the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the upheavals in the Middle East and the wars in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq and Afghanistan. In his current post, Daniszewski is involved on a daily basis with issues of standards and ethics for the AP, including questions of security for news gatherers, use of social media, fact-checking and the challenges of preserving accurate, provable and objective journalism in a time of great political polarization. He is also a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and vice president of the Overseas Press Club Foundation.

*John Daniszewski is an IPI member, IPI North America National Committee Chair, and IPI Special Representative for Journalist Safety