02/14/2005

Rubinkam promoted to AP correspondent in Allentown, Pa.

PHILADELPHIA -- Michael Rubinkam, an Associated Press reporter in Philadelphia, has been appointed the AP's first correspondent in Allentown.

The promotion was announced Feb. 14 by Chief of Bureau Sally Carpenter Hale.

Rubinkam joined the AP in 1998 in Philadelphia after working for the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre.

A native of Harleysville, Rubinkam graduated from Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania with majors in communications and political science.

Allentown becomes the fifth Pennsylvania city with an AP bureau. In addition to Philadelphia, the AP has reporters in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and State College.

Contact: Ellen Hale, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720