01/16/2004

Barry Renfrew named deputy international editor

LONDON -- The Associated Press has appointed London bureau chief Barry Renfrew as deputy international editor, a new management position based in London.

Ian Ritchie, vice president-Global Business and managing director of AP International, and International Editor Deborah Seward made the joint announcement. Ritchie is in charge of AP International, the AP division charged with expanding content development and revenue opportunities outside the United States. Renfrew will report to Ritchie and Seward, who runs the international news operation at AP's New York headquarters.

Renfrew's key responsibility will be to work with News and AP International's commercial/sales operation to meet the strategic goal of making AP the essential global news network. He will be a bridge between News and AP International, working on strategies that ensure AP is providing the right text content and quality of product for the sales team to sell and expand revenue in the international marketplace.

Before transferring to London in 2001, Renfrew held bureau chief positions in Sydney, Moscow, Johannesburg, Seoul and Islamabad. Prior to becoming bureau chief in Pakistan in 1985, he was a newsman in Australia, on the international desk in New York, in Charleston, W. Va., and on the New York General Desk, where he joined AP in 1978.

The Associated Press, founded in 1848, has more than 240 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad, providing news content in text, audio, video, graphics and photos to more than 15,000 news outlets with a daily reach of 1 billion people worldwide. AP's multimedia services are distributed by satellite and the Internet to more than 120 nations.

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