10/14/05

Karl Ritter appointed AP's bureau chief in Stockholm

NEW YORK -- Karl Ritter, news editor for The Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, has been promoted to chief of bureau there.

The announcement was made Aug. 26 by Deborah Seward, AP's international editor.

As chief of bureau, Ritter will be responsible for directing coverage in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Ritter, who was born in Bern, Switzerland, interned in AP's Rome bureau in 2000 and joined the Stockholm news staff a year later. He spent a year as an editor on the Europe-Africa Desk in London before returning to Stockholm earlier this year.

Before joining AP, Ritter produced a documentary for Kuwait Television and worked on a morning show at KTVK-TV in Phoenix.

He is a graduate of Arizona State University and holds master's degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University.

contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720