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09/22/2003
AP names four executives to domestic bureau chief positions
NEW YORK -- The Associated Press has made four executive appointments
at the state level, naming three current chiefs of bureau
to larger territories and promoting an assistant chief of
bureau to bureau chief.
Beth Grace, Sally Carpenter Hale, Clay Haswell and Anthony
Marquez will assume new responsibilities as chiefs of bureau
in Kansas/Missouri, Pennsylvania, California/Nevada, and Southern
California, respectively.
The announcement was made Monday by Tom Brettingen, senior
vice president and director of Newspaper & New Media Markets.
The openings were created when Brettingen recently promoted
four veteran bureau chiefs to regional vice presidents, reporting
to him.
Grace moves from Albany, N.Y., bureau chief to chief of bureau
for Kansas and Missouri, based in Kansas City. She succeeds
Paul Stevens, previously appointed vice president for AP's
Central region.
Hale moves from Trenton, N.J., bureau chief to Philadelphia
as chief of bureau for Pennsylvania. She succeeds Linda Stowell,
recently appointed vice president for AP's East region.
Haswell remains based in San Francisco, expanding his responsibility
to oversee all of California and Nevada.
Marquez, assistant chief of bureau in San Francisco, moves
to Los Angeles where he will be in charge of Southern California
and will report to Haswell. Marquez succeeds Sue Cross, earlier
appointed vice president for AP's West region.
Grace joined the AP in Columbus, Ohio, in 1985 after working
as a reporter for two Ohio papers: the Herald-Star of Steubenville
and the Coshocton Tribune. She became news editor in Columbus
in 1993 and assistant chief of bureau five years later. In
2001, she moved to Albany, where she was responsible for upstate
New York. A native of Sewickley, Pa., Grace is a graduate
of Bethany College in West Virginia.
Hale has been New Jersey bureau chief since August 2000.
She joined the AP in Dallas in 1979 and moved to Portland,
Ore., in 1984 as news editor. She was appointed assistant
chief of bureau in Philadelphia in 1998 and helped organize
coverage of the 2000 Republican National Convention. A graduate
of the University of Texas at Austin, she also worked as a
copy editor at The Dallas Morning News.
Haswell rejoined the AP in 1999 in San Francisco. He previously
was executive editor and vice president of Lesher Communications,
a group of five daily newspapers in the San Francisco area
now part of Knight Ridder. He is founder and president of
the World Free Press Institute, a non-profit organization
based in Walnut Creek, Calif., that trains journalists in
developing countries. Haswell joined the AP in 1982, working
in Providence. R.I., and Boston before becoming news editor
in Minneapolis for six years. He is a native of Evanston,
Ill., and a graduate of the University of Southern California.
He worked for newspapers in Australia and New Zealand and
was managing editor of the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News.
Marquez rejoined the AP in 2000 as assistant chief of bureau
in San Francisco after serving as Bay Area editor of the San
Jose Mercury News. He first joined the AP in Minneapolis in
1986 and worked as a business writer in San Francisco. Marquez
left the AP for the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, Calif.,
where he was county bureau chief and an assistant city editor.
He also was managing editor of the West County Times in Richmond,
Calif. A native of Southern California, Marquez earned a bachelor's
degree from Fresno State University and a master's in journalism
from Columbia University.
contact: Jack Stokes
212-621-1720
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