Julie Jacobson

Julie Jacobson is the news editor for photos at the Associated Press in New York City where she oversees the photo report for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and manages a team of staff photographers and freelancers in the tristate region. A 1992 graduate of the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism, Julie started her career as a staff photographer at the Kansas City Star in 1993 where she spent more than eight years covering community journalism as well as pro and college sports. In 2001 she joined the AP as a staff photographer in San Francisco then transferred to the AP’s New York City bureau in 2003. Julie has covered both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Midwest floods, multiple summer and winter Olympic games, Super Bowls, World Series, golf and tennis majors.