03/27/07

Dave Pyle to oversee AP operations in Wisconsin and Minnesota

NEW YORK -- Dave Pyle, chief of bureau for Minnesota, will add oversight of AP news and business in Wisconsin to his responsibilities under a reorganized two-state operation. As bureau chief for Minnesota and Wisconsin, Pyle will be based in Minneapolis.

The appointment was announced March 27 by John Lumpkin, vice president/business operations for U.S. Newspaper Markets.

Pyle has served as interim bureau chief for Wisconsin since last November, when Lee Hughes retired. Pyle has been bureau chief for Minnesota since January 1991.

He joined the AP's Omaha, Neb., bureau in 1979 after working as a reporter and editor for The Daily Nonpareil of Council Bluffs, Iowa, upon graduation from the University of Iowa.

A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Pyle spent four years in the Omaha bureau as a reporter and news editor before being named correspondent in charge of AP's Providence, R.I., bureau in 1983.

In 1988, he was named news editor in Dallas and was appointed assistant bureau chief in Dallas later that year.

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