05/31/06

Rohan Sullivan appointed chief of AP bureau in Australia


NEW YORK -- Rohan Sullivan, a senior editor of The Associated Press in the Asia-Pacific Region, has been named chief of bureau in Sydney, Australia.

Sullivan takes over from Michael Corder, who transferred to The Hague.

As AP deputy regional editor for the Asia-Pacific since October 2004, Sullivan played a pivotal role in award-winning coverage of the Indian Ocean tsunami that year and in helping to shape the highly competitive regional report for the 160-year-old news cooperative.

"Rohan Sullivan is one of the most capable news leaders in Asia and will advance and enhance the AP's reporting from Australia and the South Pacific," said AP International Editor John Daniszewski, announcing the appointment May 31.

Sullivan, who comes from an Australian newspaper family, joined the AP in Sydney in 1997. He transferred in 2001 to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where as news editor he helped break stories about the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and its links to al-Qaida.

He has covered assignments ranging from coups in the South Pacific to the Sydney Olympics and the war in Afghanistan.

Sullivan attended Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and won a three-year cadetship at the national broadsheet The Australian. He also worked at Australian Associated Press in the mid-1990s.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720