01/25/2005

Schneider named Wisconsin news editor for The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE -- Roger Schneider, a former metro editor of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, has been named Wisconsin news editor for The Associated Press.

The appointment was announced Jan. 25 by Wisconsin Chief of Bureau T. Lee Hughes.

Schneider's most recent position was as an assistant metro editor at the Asbury Park Press iin Neptune, N.J.

He has worked as a reporter and assistant city editor at The Orange (Texas) Leader and a reporter and city editor at the Beloit Daily News. He joined the Green Bay Press-Gazette in late 1988 and worked as a reporter, business editor and assistant metro editor. He was named metro editor in 1994 and held that position until 2003, when he moved to the Asbury Park Press.

Schneider, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, succeeds Jennifer Batog, who resigned.

Contact: Ellen Hale, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720