03/22/2005

Jim Clarke promoted to AP chief of bureau for Montana and Wyoming

NEW YORK -- Jim Clarke, news editor for The Associated Press in Kansas City, Mo., has been named the news cooperative's chief of bureau for Montana and Wyoming.

Clarke previously served as news editor in the Salt Lake City and Anchorage, Alaska, bureaus.

His appointment was announced Tuesday by Tom Brettingen, senior vice president for Newspaper and New Media Markets.

Clarke succeeds John Kuglin, who retired as Montana bureau chief in February after a 32-year career with the AP.

Clarke worked for The Westerly (R.I.) Sun, the Fairfax (Va.) Journal and The Energy Daily in Washington, D.C., before joining the AP in Anchorage in 1993. He transferred to the Columbia, S.C., bureau in 1993 before returning to Anchorage in 1995.

In Salt Lake City, Clarke supervised coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics and the Elizabeth Smart abduction story.

Clarke is a native of West Warwick, R.I., and a 1987 journalism graduate of George Washington University. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1990.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720