Carol Ann Riordan

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Carol Ann Riordan
Vice President of Programming and Personnel, American Press Institute

Ms. Riordan, who was named an API vice president in 2002, is responsible for the day-to-day programming of the Institute, which trains about 1,000 people a year in 40+ separate programs conducted in Reston and elsewhere. She also researches, plans and moderates seminars in circulation, general management and executive marketing. She joined the Institute in 1986 as an associate director, and was named API’s director of programming in 1997. She also became responsible for personnel management in 1998. She has been a discussion leader in a number of API programs and is frequently asked to participate on convention programs in the newspaper industry, including the Newspaper Association of America, Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, International Newspaper Financial Executives and the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She started her newspaper career in 1974 as a reporter for the Niles (MI) Daily Star, moving later that year to the Clearwater (FL) Sun, where she was a cityside reporter and then a feature writer. In 1976, she became a feature writer for the Belleville (IL) News-Democrat. Two years later, she joined the Madison (WI) Capital Times as editor of OFF HOURS, a weekly entertainment magazine, and was promoted to feature editor of the newspaper in 1981. She graduated from St. Mary's College of Notre Dame, Indiana, with a B.A. degree in speech and theater. Ms. Riordan attended an API seminar for Lifestyle Section Editors in 1982, the Executive Development Program in 1991, and the 2002 J. Montgomery Curtis Memorial Seminar on “Women in Newsroom Leadership.”