01/11/08

AP Press Release

Matt Joyce promoted to AP correspondent for Wyoming

NEW YORK -- Matt Joyce, a desk supervisor for The Associated Press in Dallas, has been named the news cooperative's administrative correspondent in Wyoming, based in Cheyenne.

The appointment was announced Jan. 9 by Jim Clarke, the AP's bureau chief for Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Montana.

Joyce previously worked as a newsman in the Austin, Texas, statehouse bureau. Before joining the AP in October 2002, Joyce worked as a reporter and editor at the Durango (Colo.) Herald. He left the AP in 2004 to work at the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald before returning in 2005.   Joyce is a native of Austin and a 1999 graduate of Colorado College. He earned a journalism master's degree from the University of Texas in 2003.

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