A top Associated Press executive will be the featured speaker at Kansas Editors Day on Saturday at Kansas University.

Kathleen Carroll, AP’s executive editor and senior vice president, is expected to discuss various issues, including the balancing of coverage of major newsmakers and newsmaking events, including the war in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina.

The talk is set for 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. It is open to the public.

About 100 journalists, KU faculty and alumni, students and community members are expected to attend Editors Day, which is hosted by KU’s School of Journalism.

“It’s a group of people who are very focused on Kansas journalism and especially the school,” said Ann Brill, journalism dean.

Carroll was named executive editor in 2002 and senior vice president in 2003.

Before that, she spent six years with Knight Ridder as a bureau chief supervising Washington coverage and Knight Ridder’s overseas report.

Carroll was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News before joining AP in Dallas in 1978. She served in Newark as AP’s news editor for New Jersey from 1981 to 1982 and then served as city editor and assistant bureau chief in Los Angeles until 1984.

She was a business editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris until returning to the United States as an editor at the San Jose Mercury News. She rejoined AP in 1990 as a news editor in Washington, specializing in domestic policy coverage.