Reuters hires former Post and AP executive editor Sally Buzbee to lead US, Canada news operation [Video]

FILE – Sally Buzbee, then-senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, poses for a photo, Dec. 13, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Chuck Zoeller, File) (Chuck Zoeller, AP)

NEW YORK – Sally Buzbee, the former executive editor of The Washington Post and The Associated Press, is joining Reuters as the news agency’s top editor for the United States and Canada, the company said Tuesday.

As news editor for the U.S. and Canada, Buzbee will replace Kieran Murray, who is taking over the company’s live events business.

Buzbee left the Post in June after she objected to a reorganization plan being put in place by the company’s new publisher, Will Lewis, that would have effectively demoted her.

Buzbee, 59, worked for AP for many years and led its global newsroom from 2017 to 2021 before leaving for the Post.

“Her journalistic chops, her management experience, her global understanding and her positive and pragmatic …