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Thomas J. Kent
701F Journalism
Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-621-1615
tjk17@columbia.edu
Biography:
Thomas Kent is deputy managing editor of The Associated Press. He is responsible for the Supervisory Desk that coordinates AP's news report on all its platforms: text, photos, graphics, broadcast and the Internet. He designed AP 's new multimedia headquarters He also oversees AP's business and financial news services, designed the agency's new multimedia headquarters in New York and is closely involved in AP's new media operations. He served with the AP as correspondent in Sydney, Australia; correspondent for NATO and the European Union in Brussels; correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow; chief of AP operations in Iran during the Iranian revolution; deputy news editor and news editor of AP's World Service Division in New York; and international editor of the AP. He has served twice as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in international reporting, and has been a board member of the Overseas Press Club of New York. He was raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and speaks Russian, French and Spanish. He has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1996, and since 2001 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.