02/13/06

Carol Riha named AP's bureau chief in Iowa

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Carol Ann Riha, news editor for The Associated Press in Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed chief of bureau in charge of AP's Iowa operations.

The appointment was announced Feb. 13 by John Lumpkin, AP's vice president/business operations for U.S. Newspaper Markets. She replaces Frank Fisher, who resigned.

Riha has been Des Moines news editor since 1999 and helped direct AP's coverage of the Iowa presidential caucuses in 2000 and 2004.

She joined the AP in 1983 in Detroit, where she served as broadcast editor, and transferred to Portland, Ore., in 1988.

Riha previously worked at WMT Radio and KLWW-AM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, and raised in Cedar Rapids. She is a graduate of George Fox University in Newberg, Ore.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720