06/09/06

David Marcus named AP chief of bureau for southern New England

NEW YORK -- David Marcus, bureau chief for The Associated Press in Albany, N.Y., has been named the AP's chief of bureau for southern New England.

Marcus will be responsible for the news cooperative's operations in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. He succeeds Edward S. Bell, who is retiring at the end of June after 16 years with the AP.

The appointment was announced June 9 by John O. Lumpkin, the AP's vice president/business operations for U.S. newspaper markets.

Marcus, who will be based in Boston, was appointed chief of bureau in Albany in 2003. He joined the AP a year earlier as assistant chief of bureau in Philadelphia.

Before that, he spent more than 25 years with Ottaway Newspapers, the community newspaper division of Dow Jones & Co., the last seven years as editor of The Salem (Mass.) Evening News. He was also editor of The Daily Item in Sunbury, Pa., and previously worked for 13 years in various newsroom positions at the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Mass.

He is a graduate of Babson College in Wellesley, Mass.

Bell has spent more than three decades in New England journalism.

He joined the AP in 1990 as regional television executive for the Northeast and served as director of television membership before becoming the AP's chief of bureau based in Boston in 1999. Before joining the AP, Bell was managing editor of WHDH-TV and news director of WHDH Radio and WBZ Radio, all in Boston. He also worked as a reporter and columnist for The Salem Evening News.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720