Shazna Nessa - 2009 Fellow

SHAZNA NESSA, Director of Multimedia and Graphics, Associated Press

Shazna Nessa is Director of Multimedia and Graphics at the Associated Press in New York. Nessa runs a newly merged department that provides visual and interactive material to news organizations worldwide for all formats. Nessa joined AP in 1999 in Paris and was transferred to New York a year later to be an interactive news designer. In 2005, she was named interactive editor of asap, AP’s Eppy award winning news service that produced multimedia-rich content for the 18-34 demographic. In 2007, the London native and Sorbonne graduate left AP for a year to work at Conde Nast's Portfolio.com, as executive multimedia producer.