Sandy MacIntyre

Vice President and Director of News for International Video, Associated Press Television News, London, UK

I joined the AP in 1994 as one of the founding fathers of its London-based international video news agency. In this capacity, I have journalistic and financial responsibility to lead AP’s global television staff on the big stories which shape the 24/7 multimedia world we inhabit today.

In recent years I have been one of AP’s senior news leaders focused on having our text, photographic and video operations work together in pursuit of distinctive, compelling journalism to fuel traditional markets and the digital information space.

Most recently I have been one of the architects of a business transformation project designed to ensure the continued profitability of AP’s international video arm and equip it for the challenges of providing high definition digital video for a range of platforms and devices from TV screens to mobile.

Scots-born and Edinburgh Napier University educated in journalism, I came to AP from British television news firm ITN where, as a foreign editor and front-line producer, I covered the full gambit of news, politics and sport - including war reporting in the Balkans, Chechnya and Iraq, revolution across Eastern Europe, genocide in Rwanda and the US presidential campaigns from 1992 onwards.

I have led editorial teams at five Olympic Games, six (football) World Cups and produced live TV coverage from a submarine in the depths of Loch Ness - whilst hunting the elusive monster in the lake - to the beaches of a Pacific island in Kiribati, which was first to see the new dawn of the millennium.

This year, I am especially interested in looked at the effect of i-Tablets on television new viewing habits.

My e-mail address is smacintyre@ap.org and I look forward to hearing from you.