05/06/05

Seagrave promoted to vice president

NEW YORK -- Jane R. Seagrave has been promoted to vice president of new media markets for The Associated Press, responsible for the news agency’s digital services and online customer relationships.

Seagrave has served since 2003 as director of AP Digital, which provides news and information to Web sites, corporate desktops, wireless devices and other new media applications. Earlier this year, she added responsibility for the online operations of AP-member newspapers.

Her appointment to vice president of the combined new media unit of the news agency's Newspaper & New Media Markets department was announced May 6 by Tom Brettingen, senior vice president of the department.

Seagrave rejoined the AP in 2003 from a role as chief online strategy consultant for America Lawyer Media, where she oversaw the integration of that New York-based company with San Francisco-based law.com.

She was an AP newswoman from 1979 to 1985 with assignments in Santa Fe, N.M., Grants Pass, Ore., and Boston. She later served as vice president-editorial and production for Lawyers Weekly Publications in Boston, president and chief operating officer of Legal Communications Ltd. in Philadelphia, and chief executive officer of localbusiness.com of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

A New England native, she is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

contact:
Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212-621-1730