12/20/06

Evan Berland appointed South Carolina news editor for The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Evan Berland, a supervisor in the Trenton, N.J., bureau of The Associated Press, has been named AP news editor in South Carolina.

The appointment was announced Dec. 20 by Maryann Mrowca, acting chief of bureau in South Carolina.

Berland has been day supervisor in Trenton since October 2004. He joined the AP in Hartford, Conn., in early 1995 and worked there for nearly four years before leaving in late 1998 as the bureau's chief political reporter.

A graduate of Brandeis University, Berland was a reporter at The Middlesex News in Framingham, Mass., before joining AP.

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