Louis D. Boccardi was president and Chief Executive Officer of The Associated Press (AP), the world's largest news organization, from 1985 until his retirement in 2003.
[1] Prior to assuming the presidency, he served one year as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and 10 years as executive editor in charge of AP's news operations.
Boccardi is a member of the national advisory board of the Freedom Forum Center for Media Studies, and a trustee emeritus of the Newseum, and the board of visitors of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and is an honorary trustee of the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas.
He is a member of the special committee appointed to monitor the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal after its purchase by News Corp.
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