AP World News with new editorial director
Verena Schmitt-Roschmann has taken over as editorial director of the German-language AP World News. She thus bears editorial responsibility for the text service, which has been distributed by the German news agency DPA since February 2013.
The AP World News covers a selection of the global reporting of the U.S. news agency Associated Press for the German-speaking market. Verena Schmitt-Roschmann succeeds Peter Zschunke, who had led the development of the new newsroom on an interim basis since the beginning of 2013, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur DPA on Tuesday. Zschunke is now returning to DPA's net world editorial department as chief correspondent at his own request. She will leave the DPA Group in the summer of 2013 and move to the Evangelical Press Service EPD as chief of staff.
After working at the news agency AFP and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Verena Schmitt-Roschmann worked at AP Germany from 1993 to 2010. She then worked for the DAPD agency and the weekly newspaper Der Freitag. In January 2013, she joined the DPA Group.
AP Weltnachrichten is distributed in Germany by DPA (Werbewoche.ch reported). To market the service in Austria, dpa has concluded an agreement with the Austrian news agency APA. In Switzerland, the service is marketed by the Swiss Dispatch Agency SDA. (SDA)
