Associated Press names Nick Tatro news editor for New York City
By APMonday, February 8, 2010
AP names Nicolas Tatro New York City news editor
NEW YORK — Nicolas B. Tatro, the deputy international editor of The Associated Press and a veteran news leader who has directed newsgathering operations in AP bureaus across the Middle East, has been named New York City news editor.
The appointment was announced Monday by East Regional Editor Larry Rosenthal.
Tatro, who has had a 39-year career with the AP, coordinated news coverage among regional desks overseas.
“New York, one of the world’s great cities, needed one of the world’s great news editors to lead our coverage,” said Senior Managing Editor Mike Oreskes. “In Nick Tatro, veteran of wars, coups and moon missions, we found that editor.”
Tatro, who started out in the Miami bureau before transferring to New York, began his international career in Cairo. He was named chief of bureau in Iran in 1979 but was expelled by the new Islamic revolutionary government.
In 1980, he became chief Mideast correspondent in Beirut and covered the 1982 Israel invasion and war in Lebanon. In 1983, he was named chief of bureau in Israel and later covered the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising, or intefadeh.
He was named a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in 1990 and then worked on the international desk in New York, a position that included a stint in Somalia covering the landing of U.S. troops.
He returned to Israel in 1993 as chief of bureau in Jerusalem and covered the Oslo peace process, a wave of bombings and attacks and the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He became deputy international editor in 1999.
“The very best news editors deliver rich, competitive coverage from their states, leading staffers who can’t be beaten on spot news, who regularly unearth scoops and creatively explore the people, trends and activities that make those states fascinating. And that is just the kind of leadership that Nick will bring to New York City,” said Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the news cooperative.
