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Senior Managing Editor
Associated Press
In early 2009, Michael Oreskes became senior managing editor for the Associated Press. Prior to this, as managing editor for U.S. news, he oversaw all U.S. news from the Associated Press coming in from bureaus across the 50 states, as well as national political coverage from the Washington office, the news service's largest domestic bureau. He also supervised the AP's national feature, beat, and investigative reporters.
Prior to coming to the AP, he served as executive editor of the International Herald Tribune since 2005. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of the New York Times, supervising television and Internet content. During this period, he won three Emmy awards and a DuPont award for documentary television.
From 1997 to 2001, Oreskes was Washington bureau chief for the Times, and previously served as national political correspondent, metropolitan editor, and city editor. He started with the Times in 1981 as a metropolitan correspondent. Before that Oreskes worked for the Daily News in New York City. He is a graduate of City College of New York.
He is co author of The Genius of America, How the Constitution Saved Our Country and Why It Can Again, published in French by Odile Jacob as Le Génie de l’Amérique.
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