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Amanda Barrett is a deputy managing editor for digital news, news coordination and newsroom talent development at The Associated Press in New York. The digital news team works with colleagues across the AP to produce award-winning digital storytelling and curates AP’s customer and audience platforms. Amanda also leads the Nerve Center, the hub of AP’s global newsroom, which serves as a center for news coordination, editorial customer engagement and standards. In 2020, Amanda created an Inclusive Journalism Initiative focused on broadening the global AP news report to bring in more diverse audiences and viewpoints. She also works to recruit a wide range of journalists and mentors staff and colleagues across the industry as they seek to create fulfilling career paths.
Amanda got her start in journalism as a teenager when she attended a Minority Journalism Program at The Roanoke (Va.) Times. She worked in sports there and at The Orlando Sentinel before spending 10 years at Newsday in New York in a variety of roles as an editor in the newsroom and for the news organization’s online sites. Amanda is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.