April 9, 2004

Kevin Noblet named AP's business editor

NEW YORK --Kevin Noblet, deputy business editor for The Associated Press, has been promoted to business editor.The appointment was announced Friday by Kathleen Carroll, AP senior vice president and executive editor.

Noblet has been deputy business editor since 2000, and previously was deputy international editor for six years.

He succeeds Darrell Christian, who has been named director of sports data.

A native of Stamford, Conn., Noblet worked for newspapers in Connecticut before joining the AP in 1980 in New Orleans. He reported for AP from Latin America and the Caribbean for nearly a decade, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile, where he was chief of bureau, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Noblet graduated from Concordia College in Bronxville, N.Y. He was a 1990-91 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was the Scripps Visiting Professional at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism for 1999-2000