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06/30/06
Mike
McQueen named AP chief of bureau in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- Mike McQueen, assistant
chief of bureau for The Associated Press in New Orleans and
former managing editor of The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, has been
named AP chief of bureau in New Orleans.
McQueen will direct AP's news coverage and staffs in Louisiana
and Mississippi as well as head relationships with AP member
newspapers and broadcast stations in the two states. He had
been assistant chief of bureau since March.
His appointment was announced June 29 by John O. Lumpkin,
vice president of the AP's U.S. business operations.
McQueen succeeds Hank Ackerman, who has been chief of bureau
in New Orleans since January. Ackerman will return to the
corporate staff as a general executive in the AP's Newspaper
Markets Department.
McQueen started his journalism career in 1977 as a reporter
for the Tallahassee Democrat after graduation from Florida
State University. He joined AP in 1980, working in Miami as
a reporter and editor and then in Tallahassee as correspondent
until joining The Miami Herald in 1984.
He later worked on the staffs of USA Today and Gannett News
Service, and served as chair of the journalism and broadcasting
sequence of Florida International University's School of Journalism
and Mass Communication. He became managing editor in Macon
in 2004.
McQueen holds a master's degree in communications from Florida
Atlantic University. He is a member of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communications and the National
Association of Black Journalists, and was president of the
south Florida region of the Society of Professional Journalists
from 2001 to 2002.
Ackerman joined AP in New York in 1972 as an editor on the
world services desk and became AP news editor in Buenos Aires
in 1973. He subsequently headed AP offices in Lima, Peru;
Caracas, Venezuela; Cleveland; New Orleans; Detroit; Atlanta
and Louisville, Ky. He was a general executive in the cooperative's
Membership Department from 1993 to 2003, and director of marketing
of AP's multimedia services from 1995 to 2003. During his
second assignment in New Orleans, he managed the transition
of the bureau after Hurricane Katrina.
Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720
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