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11/18/05
Julie
Aicher new global training manager for AP; Linda Wienandt
oversees New Mexico operations
NEW YORK -- Julie Aicher, a veteran
bureau chief and editor for The Associated Press, has been
named manager of global training and development for the news
cooperative.
Linda Wienandt,
chief of bureau for Arizona, will add oversight of AP news
and business in New Mexico to her responsibilities under a
reorganized two-state operation. As bureau chief for Arizona
and New Mexico, Wienandt will be based in Phoenix.
The appointments were announced Nov. 18 by Jessica Bruce,
vice president for Human Resources, and John Lumpkin, vice
president/business operations for U.S. Newspaper Markets.
The changes will be effective Dec. 1.
Aicher, who will remain based in Albuquerque, N.M., will work
with all AP divisions and training groups to coordinate future
training and development plans. She will also research executive
education programs for AP management.
Aicher was appointed chief of bureau for New Mexico in 1998.
She joined the AP in 1989 and worked in Albuquerque and Madison,
Wis., before she was named news editor in Milwaukee in 1991.
In 1993, she became assistant chief of bureau in Los Angeles.
Aicher went to work for the Albuquerque Journal in 1995, and
was appointed sports editor in 1996. She is from Albuquerque
and is a graduate of New Mexico State University.
Wienandt joined the AP in January 2004, after a 27-year career
as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Texas, California
and Colorado. She was managing editor of the Abilene (Texas)
Reporter-News when she was named bureau chief for Arizona.
A native of Las Vegas, N.M., Wienandt also worked as features
editor of the Austin American-Statesman, city editor of the
Rocky Mountain News in Denver and managing editor of The Bakersfield
Californian. She began her daily newspaper career as a reporter
at the Temple (Texas) Daily Telegram in 1976 and moved to
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 1977.
She is a graduate of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Contact: Jack Stokes,
AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720
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