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12/04
The Associated Press names four
new heads of news operations in Asia
NEW YORK – The Associated Press has appointed four bureau
chiefs in Asia, giving new leadership to news operations in
Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul and Singapore.
The appointments were announced
Nov. 12 by Deborah Seward, AP's international editor.
Tim Sullivan is the new
chief of bureau in New Delhi. He joined the AP in 1993 in
the New York City bureau. He was an editor on the International
Desk before moving to Abidjan in 1997, where he was the correspondent
and later the bureau chief for West Africa. He was a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University in 2001-2002, before coming to
New
Delhi, where he has been correspondent since 2002.
Sullivan, who grew up in Birmingham, Michigan, and Boiling
Springs, Pennsylvania, graduated from Georgetown University
in 1988 with a degree in international relations. He replaces
Beth Duff-Brown, who has become chief of bureau in Toronto
.
Christopher Torchia, who will take on the new position of
chief of bureau in Singapore, joined the AP's foreign service
in 1994 as a correspondent in Colombia. He transferred to
Indonesia in 1997, where he served as news editor, and has
been bureau chief in Seoul since 1999.
Torchia joined the AP in
1989, working in the Albany, New York, and Boston bureaus,
as well as the International Desk. A native of Long Island,
New York, he is a graduate of Yale University.
Torchia is being replaced in Seoul
by Burt Herman, who has been AP correspondent in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan.
Herman joined the AP in
1996 in Sacramento, California, and worked in Detroit before
transferring to the International Desk in 1998. He was posted
to Berlin in 1999 and then to Moscow in 2001. In 2002, he
moved to Tashkent to open a new AP operation covering Central
Asia.
Raised in Santa Barbara, California,
he holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's
degree in Russian and East European studies from Stanford
University.
Bill Foreman, the new chief of bureau in Hong Kong, joined
the AP as a newsman in Kansas City in 1995. He transferred
to the AP's international desk in 1997 and was named bureau
chief in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999.
A native of Kansas, Foreman earned bachelor's degrees in philosophy
and English at the University of Kansas in 1987. He completed
language courses in Mandarin at universities in Taiwan and
China. He replaces Robert Liu, who retired.
Contact: Ellen Hale
Corporate Communications
+212 621 1720
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