John Daniszewski - 2008 Fellow

JOHN DANISZEWSKI
Managing Editor, International News
The Associated Press

John Daniszewski was appointed Managing Editor for International News at The Associated Press in November 2007. He had been International Editor for The AP since May 2006, overseeing more than 600 journalists in about 100 bureaus outside the United States.

Daniszewski returned to The AP after 10 years as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. In a total of 19 years abroad for the Times and before that The AP, he has covered some of the most significant social and political changes of our time along with conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Daniszewski was the Times correspondent in Cairo, Moscow, Baghdad and most recently, bureau chief in London. In 2003, he was based in Baghdad, staying through the U.S. invasion, the toppling of Saddam Hussein's government and the unrest that followed. For the Times, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and was a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for 2006 Pulitzer Prize and won an Overseas Press Club award.

Before joining the Times, Daniszewski spent 16 years with the AP, starting as a stringer while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he joined AP in 1979 in Philadelphia and worked in Harrisburg and on the national and international editing desks in New York before moving to Warsaw as correspondent in 1987. In 1993, he was named AP bureau chief in South Africa.

For the AP, Daniszewski covered the collapse of communism in Poland and then the rest of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and the election of President Nelson Mandela and the assumption of black majority rule in South Africa.

In 1989, he was shot in the arm and seriously wounded at a checkpoint while covering the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.

In addition to the war in Iraq, Daniszewski has covered conflicts in Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Chechnya and the aftermaths of civil war in Rwanda and Angola.

Daniszewski grew up in Centerville, Ohio, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School.