Ron Nixon

Ron Nixon is AP’s Vice President for News, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships. Nixon received the inaugural 2021 News Leader of the Year award from the News Leaders Association. He has overseen investigations that have won a number of awards including, the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, a Pulitzer finalist for Investigative Reporting, a George Polk award, a News and Documentary Emmy, a George Foster Peabody Award, and a National Edward R Murrow award. He is also a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.  Nixon was previously a correspondent with the New York Times. He has reported from Rwanda, Uganda, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Senegal, Mozambique, Burundi, Kenya, El Salvador, the United Kingdom, Peru, Brazil, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the author of the book Selling Apartheid: Apartheid South Africa’s Global Propaganda War.