03/04/2005

Fram appointed news editor for foreign affairs, military in AP Washington bureau

WASHINGTON -- Alan Fram, a veteran congressional correspondent for The Associated Press, has been appointed news editor for military and international affairs in Washington.

The appointment was announced March 4 by Chief of Bureau Sandy Johnson.

Fram began working for The Associated Press in Newark, N.J., in 1981, moving to Washington in 1983 as that state's regional reporter.

He was promoted to the national staff in 1985 and has covered Congress since 1987, specializing in the budget and spending issues.

In 1996, he was chairman of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, which supervises credentialing in Congress' press galleries and oversees press arrangements for the national political conventions. In 2002, he won the Everett McKinley Dirksen award for distinguished reporting on Congress.

Fram began his journalism career at The Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., in 1976 and later worked for the Times Union in Albany, N.Y.

A Bronx native, Fram graduated from The City College of New York in 1973. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1976.

Contact: Ellen Hale, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720