NPC President Kodjak takes on new role as Associated Press investigations editor

National Press Club President Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, an award-winning reporter and editor, has returned to The Associated Press as its Washington investigations editor. She had worked as a reporter and editor at AP from 1997 to 2000.

In her new role at AP, Kodjak manages a team of Washington-based investigative reporters and works with colleagues across the AP to delve into how politics, policy and money in Washington affect the nation and the world.

“Alison is one of the best journalists in the business,” Michael Hudson, the AP’s global investigations editor, said in a statement. “As an editor and reporter, she’s shown she knows how to dig into complex, contentious issues and come away with powerful, gripping stories.”

Before rejoining AP, Kodjak worked at National Public Radio as a health policy correspondent. She has also held reporting and editing posts at the Center for Public Integrity, Bloomberg News, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Palm Beach Post, among other news organizations. She is the co-author of a 2011 book about the BP oil disaster, “In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down," and the winner of three George Polk Awards.