"What we are focused on is ensuring that we can provide content that is ready to go for our customers to use, and that is where our focus is at the moment."
Daisy Rubini Veerasingham is a British businesswoman who has been the president and CEO of the Associated Press since 2021, succeeding Gary Pruitt.
"Adaptability is really important — the style and the way that you do things has to change according to the environment. There are times where you step up and lead, but there are equally times where you can lead in a more informal manner."
"I have always wanted to work in an organization that is global. Whilst these situations are tough, I have found retaining a sense of humor and understanding cultural nuance has been vital to not take things like that too personally."
"We felt that this is the ecosystem the AP has supported since its founding and that its a space that we need to step in and help shore up."
"It will help to sustain what we do, grow what we do, and add new and incremental journalism services for the industry.The state of local news is at an actual point of critical crisis, and we see this exacerbating further."
"Philanthropy can help by injecting resources to both insulate coverage from cutbacks and accelerate important reporting projects. Grants can give newsrooms the runway they need to deepen their coverage, experiment with new approaches, help make important shifts toward greater diversity, and confront relentless threats from misinformation."
"Our intellectual property has to be protected. Why is that important? Because we put journalists on the frontlines every single day. We’ve just talked about the huge number of risks that come with that. And that’s why we have to protect our intellectual property and [second] we have to achieve a fair value for that."