Saeed Ahmed is VP of news for digital platforms at The Associated Press (AP), where he leads efforts to deepen engagement with audiences on APNews, social media and other emerging digital platforms, with the goal of bringing AP’s journalism to more people, in more modern ways. He was appointed to the role in January 2023.

Previously, he was head of digital journalism at the BBC, and prior to that director of digital news at NPR, where he combined four disparate teams into one, grew it to the largest – and most diverse unit – in the organization, and rethought the way NPR creates and curates content across site, social, streaming platforms and smart speakers. Before he joined NPR in 2021, he led CNN's content diversity initiative, birthed the top two newsletters in CNN’s portfolio: 5 Things and The Good Stuff, and won an Emmy for Best Interactive Media.

Saeed was born in Bangladesh, raised in the United Arab Emirates and attended Morehouse College in the U.S. He speaks fluent Bengali, basic Urdu, serviceable Hindi, and can read Arabic. He started his journalism career at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was part of the breaking-news team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the 2005 Fulton County Courthouse shooting.

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