09/08/2004
Trott, AP bureau chief for Washington, adds oversight of Idaho


NEW YORK -- Nancy Roberts Trott, chief of bureau for The Associated Press for Washington state, is adding Idaho to her oversight under a restructuring of AP management in Western states.

Trott's appointment was announced Sept. 1 by Tom Brettingen, senior vice president for Newspaper & New Media Markets.

Trott returned to the Northwest in 2003 after serving as AP's regional news editor in Washington, D.C. She previously was Washington state news editor in Seattle from 1999 to 2002.

In Idaho, she succeeds William Beecham, former Intermountain bureau chief based in Salt Lake City, who has left the company to teach English in Japan.

Chris Clark, the Intermountain news editor based in Salt Lake City, continues to provide daily management of the Utah and Idaho news reports during a transition in AP's oversight of Idaho operations.

George Garties, chief of bureau for The Associated Press for Colorado, has assumed responsibility for Utah, while John Kuglin, chief of bureau for Montana, added oversight of Wyoming under the Western restructuring. Trott joined the AP in Concord, N.H., in 1991, and later worked in AP bureaus in Providence, R.I., and Albany, N.Y., before returning to Concord in 1993 as a supervising editor.

She left Concord three years later to move to the Pacific Northwest, where she worked briefly for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer before moving to ABC News' online operation in 1997 and then rejoining the AP at Seattle.

Trott was born in New Britain, Conn., and graduated from the University of New Hampshire.