Terrence Petty

Terrence Petty was an Associated Press journalist for thirty-five years. Retired since 2017, he was based in Bonn from 1987 to 1997, where he covered German and European affairs, traveling between West and East Germany during the Cold War. During the late 1980s and 1990s, from the pro-democracy movement and reunification to neo-Nazi violence and the fiftieth-anniversary ceremonies at Dachau and Buchenwald, he filed extensively from the country. From 1999 to 2017 he managed the AP’s news operation in Oregon. Before joining the AP, Petty worked for newspapers in Vermont and upstate New York. Raised in Fair Haven, Vermont, he graduated from the University of Vermont in 1974 with a BA in history. Petty and his wife, Christina, live in Portland with their son, Tristan.