05/24/06

Diane Davis appointed as AP's new Lifestyles editor

NEW YORK -- Diane Davis, former New York metropolitan editor for Newsday, has been appointed to a new position as lifestyles editor for The Associated Press.

The appointment was announced May 24 by Sally Jacobsen, deputy managing editor/projects.

As lifestyles editor, Davis will oversee the news cooperative's features section, which includes stories covering such areas as food, fashion, homes and gardens, travel, and its special or monthly themed editions.

Davis was metropolitan editor for Newsday from December 2004 to December 2005, managing a staff of 26 writers and seven editors in covering New York City. She was a deputy city editor for three years and an assistant city editor for two years.

She also worked at the Star-Gazette in Elmira, N.Y., and began her journalism career as a reporter at the Intelligencer Journal in Lancaster, Pa.

A Pennsylvania native, Davis is a graduate of Penn State University, where she was editor of the student newspaper.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720