Bill Church is Senior Vice President of News for GateHouse Media. Previously he served as Executive Editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and Southeast Regional Editor for GateHouse. Church is the 2016-17 president of the Associated Press Media Editors, a 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard and a two-time Pulitzer jurist. He is a longtime member of the Asian American Journalists Association and a recipient of the national Robert G. McGruder Diversity Leadership Award.