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New York, NY-based Associated Press Resigned Lorraine Cichowski as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
For more than 169 years, AP has been covering and breaking the biggest stories from around the world. Based in 280 locations with 13 regional hubs, AP offers fast and accurate coverage of every story making the headlines. AP is your definitive source for news. AP also offers a range of services and products that both complement its newsgathering resource and further enhance the customer experience – from scalable news production software to on-site broadcast facilities, assignment services to archive collections, and more.
About the Person
Lorraine Cichowski serves as Senior Vice President of Technology at The Associated Press, Inc. Ms. Cichowski has been with The Associated Press since 2004 to work on digital strategies, started a product development department later that year and became Head of AP Technology in 2006. At Associated Press, Ms. Cichowski directs a diverse Technology team of more than 500 who design, develop and support Web and mobile products as well as multimedia newsroom, back-office, broadcast technology, customer Web portals and digital content processing and delivery systems. A global field staff is responsible for supporting AP`s breaking-news operation and nearly 250 news bureaus in 100 countries. Ms. Cichowski served as a Vice President of Product Development of The Associated Press since November 2004. Ms. Cichowski has worked for the Associated Press in Miami, Tallahassee and Manhattan. She served as a Senior Vice President of USA TODAY, where she developed the strategic plan for USA today.com, which she launched in 1995 and ran as publisher for six years. She served as President and Chief Operating Officer of eMarketWorld.com. She also served in the roles of Vice President and General Manager, Director of special projects and Deputy Managing Editor in the paper`s Money section. She served as Director of Verve Wireless, Inc. Ms .Cichowski was a media, communications and strategic planning consultant and Head of Internet Development for a Virginia start-up company .She also was charged with developing the newspaper s wireless strategy. Before getting involved in interactive media and technology. Ms. Cichowski holds a law degree from George Mason University, a masters degree in communications-public affairs journalism from American University and a bachelor s degree in English from Seton Hall University.
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