Michael Oreskes

Michael Oreskes is senior managing editor of The Associated Press, the world's largest newsgathering organization.

He supervises the news cooperative's daily, all-format and global report.
Oreskes came to the AP from the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, where he was executive editor. Before coming to the AP, Mike
spent 27 years with The New York Times Co. He began in 1981 as a
reporter for the Times, covering local, state and national politics; he
went on to serve as Chief Political Correspondent, Metro editor, Washington bureau chief and deputy managing editor. As a member of the Times masthead, Mike was a pioneer in its television and online operations. Before coming to the Times, Mike worked for the Daily News, New York, where he was a general assignment reporter, City Hall bureau chief, and also covered education, Albany and
the labor beat.

He is co-author of "The Genius of America: How The Constitution Saved our Country and Why it Can Again" (Bloomsbury), a look at how the framers invented what we now understand as modern democracy and why we forget the lessons they learned at our peril.

He is a graduate of The City College of New York and a native new yorker.

He was deeply involved in the coverage of both the first and second attacks on the world trade center.


Boards: American Society of News Editors; AP Managing Editors; City
University Graduate School of Journalism; The Correspondent's Fund;
World Economic Forum media leaders council (co chair)