Carroll, Kathleen

Kathleen Carroll has served as executive editor for the AP since 2002 and as senior vice president since Sept. 2003. Before joining the news organization some 25 years ago, she studied journalism at the University of Texas at Arlington and worked as a reporter for the Dallas Morning News.

The Dallas bureau of the AP first hired Carroll in 1978. She quickly rose through the ranks, being promoted to news editor of the Newark bureau in 1981 and then in 1982, city editor, then assistant chief of the Los Angeles Bureau.

For the next several years, Carroll worked first as a business editor for the International Herald Tribune in Paris and then as an editor for the San Jose Mercury News. She returned to the AP for a time in 1990 as a Washington DC bureau news editor until Knight Ridder hired her as Washington Bureau News Editor in 1996. She became Knight Ridder's Washington Bureau Chief in 1999, supervising both Washington and overseas coverage for the newspaper group. During that time, Knight Ridder reporters won a 2001 George Polk Award for international reporting.

Carroll has been a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors since 1996 and has served on its Readership and Craft Development Committees. She also is a member of the Associated Press Managing Editors' Board of Directors and the APME board's executive committee.

Carroll joined the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2003.