12/07/06

Patrick Quinn appointed to new AP position of Assistant Chief of Middle East News


NEW YORK -- Patrick Quinn, who has covered wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans for The Associated Press, has been appointed to the new position of Assistant Chief of Middle East News based in Cairo.

The appointment was announced Dec. 7 by International Editor John Daniszewski.

Quinn who has been the chief of Southeast Europe News based in Athens, will take up his new post early next year. He has been overseeing AP's coverage in Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Macedonia.

In his new job, Quinn will help direct coverage from the AP's Mideast regional hub of Cairo, overseeing countries from Iraq and Iran to Lebanon and Sudan. He will report to Chief of Middle East News Sally Buzbee.

In addition to his recent work in Iraq and Afghanistan, Quinn covered the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the Balkan wars of the 1990s, the conflicts in Albania and wars in Kosovo and Macedonia. He has also reported extensively from the Mideast and Pakistan.

Quinn joined the AP as a reporter in Athens in 1988 after working as a stringer. He left to work for a regional newspaper in New York City, returning to the AP in 1991.

Quinn, whose family is from Bedford, Mass., studied at Boston University and has an undergraduate degree from the American College of Greece.

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