Michael Oreskes

• Vice-President and Senior Managing Editor, Associated Press (AP), USA

Graduate, The City College of New York. Former: General Assignment Reporter and City Hall Bureau Chief, (New York) Daily News. 27 years with The New York Times Co.: 1981, Reporter, Times; then Metro Editor, Washington Bureau Chief and Deputy Managing Editor; was a pioneer in its television and online operations. Former: Executive Editor, International Herald Tribune. 2008, joined The Associated Press; currently, Vice-President and Senior Managing Editor, responsible for supervising the news cooperative's daily all-format and global report. Former Correspondent, Special Edition (later City Edition), WNET. Co-Author, The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved our Country and Why it Can Again (2007).