02/25/2005

Reindl appointed director of major accounts development

NEW YORK -- James J. Reindl, who has held news management positions with The Associated Press for 20 years, has been promoted to the newly created position of director of major accounts development in the news agency's Newspaper & New Media Markets department.

The appointment, which takes effect March 15, was announced Friday by Tom Brettingen, senior vice president of the N&NMM department. Reindl, who has been chief of bureau in charge of AP operations in Illinois for the past five years, will remain based in Chicago.

"Building on our already strong business relationships with the country's largest newspaper companies is critical to AP, and putting Jim in this role will help us strengthen those ties," Brettingen said.

Reindl began his AP career as a reporter in Detroit before moving to Milwaukee in 1985 as news editor for Wisconsin. In 1987 he was promoted to news editor in Chicago and later served as assistant chief of bureau and acting chief of bureau before taking the Miami bureau chief position in 1993. He later served three years as chief of bureau in Indianapolis before returning to Chicago in 1999 as bureau chief there.

A native of Wyandotte, Mich., Reindl began his journalism career as a reporter with the The Muskegon (Mich.) Chronicle. He is a 1978 graduate of Central Michigan University. He holds a master's degree in journalism from The Ohio State University, where he was a Kiplinger Fellow, and an MBA from DePaul University in Chicago.

He is a charter member of the board of directors of the Illinois First Amendment Center and has extensive teaching experience as an adjunct professor at Columbia College in Chicago, The Ohio State University, Butler University in Indianapolis and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

contact: Jack Stokes
AP Corporate Communications
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