Veteran journalist Stephen Wright promoted to Asia business editor for the Associated Press
By APFriday, August 6, 2010
Stephen Wright named AP’s Asia business editor
NEW YORK — Veteran business journalist Stephen Wright has been named Asia business editor for The Associated Press.
The appointment was announced Friday by Managing Editor Kristin Gazlay.
As business editor, Wright directs the AP’s coverage of Asia’s dynamic economic growth and its global implications, working with the news agency’s journalists throughout the region.
“Stephen has the qualities to drive important business and economic news coverage across the Asia-Pacific region, which represents an increasing share of the world’s wealth and aspirations,” said Senior Managing Editor John Daniszewski, who oversees international coverage.
Wright, 43, has been acting Asia business editor for the AP since September, when his predecessor, Malcolm Foster, was named Tokyo bureau chief. He joined the AP as deputy Asia business editor in 2008.
Previously, he was a reporter and bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires in New Zealand, Singapore and Bangkok, where he oversaw coverage of Thailand and Vietnam. He was named winner of the William R. Clabby Dow Jones Newswires award for reporting excellence in 2007 and, a year later, was a finalist in the scoop category of the World Leadership Forum’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards.
Wright, a native of New Zealand, earned a diploma of journalism at Massey University in New Zealand.
