06/03/2005

Fox appointed AP news editor for the Caribbean

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Ben Fox, Orange County correspondent for The Associated Press, has been named Caribbean news editor.

The appointment was announced May 25 by Chief of Caribbean Services Michelle Faul.
Fox joined AP in 1999 as a reporter in the San Diego bureau. He transferred in October 2002 to the international desk and became Orange County correspondent in March 2004.

In 2001, he won the Bernard Hurwitz Award for Excellence in Reporting, given annually to a California AP staff member.

During 1997-99, Fox was the Dow Jones Newswires reporter in Monterrey, Mexico. Previously, he was a reporter for The Oakland Tribune and ANG Newspapers, The (Sacramento) Union and The Napa Valley Register.

Fox is a native of Boston and a graduate of the University of California, Davis.

He will report from and manage the AP report in 27 countries and territories in the Caribbean.

He replaces Paisley Dodds, who was promoted to chief of bureau in London.

contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720