David Minthorn named deputy standards editor for The Associated Press

David Minthorn named deputy AP standards editor

NEW YORK — David Minthorn, an AP news executive who has worked on style and standards at the news cooperative since 2000, has been named deputy standards editor.

Minthorn will work at the AP Nerve Center, a global headquarters operation based in New York, and report to Standards Editor Thomas Kent. Standards editors work with department heads and regional editors across the company to ensure high and uniform standards essential for the AP’s credibility and reliability.

Minthorn has worked at AP for four decades, including 16 years as a correspondent and news editor in Germany and Russia. He has held news management positions at the AP international and domestic desks in New York since 1985.

He joined AP in Frankfurt, Germany, after service in the U.S. Army in Germany, where he edited an infantry division newspaper. He worked in the Bonn and Moscow bureaus before serving as news editor for Germany and Central Europe in 1983-85. During assignments as deputy news editor of World Services and assistant international editor, Minthorn supervised coverage for international subscribers at numerous Olympics and soccer World Cups.

As manager for news administration at AP headquarters since 2000, he managed state news projects, supervised AP submissions to national writing contests and worked extensively on standards and credibility issues. He is an editor of the AP Stylebook.

Minthorn holds a B.A. in English from Whitman College and a master’s in journalism from the University of Oregon.