03/04/2005

Christopher Smith named AP Boise correspondent

BOISE, Idaho -- Christopher Smith, a Washington regional reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune, has been named correspondent in charge of The Associated Press' Boise bureau.

The appointment was announced March 4 by Nancy Roberts Trott, the AP's chief of bureau for Idaho and Washington.

Smith joined the Tribune staff in 1992 and opened the newspaper's Washington bureau in 2002 to cover Western issues.

After attending the University of Idaho, the Lewiston native worked as a reporter and news director for 4-K Radio Inc. and its network of eight stations in northern Idaho and eastern Washington from 1982 to 1987.

He went on to cover politics for the Idahonian in Moscow, Idaho -- now The Moscow-Pullman Daily News -- before becoming managing editor of The Daily Sparks (Nev.) Tribune in 1989.

He served as editor and publisher of the newspaper from 1990 to 1992.

In 2002, Rowman and Littlefield published Smith's first book, "That's Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin" with Ricci Martin.

Contact: Ellen Hale, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720