Press Releases

03/10/2008

Lisa Pane appointed South deputy editor for The Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) -- Lisa Marie Pane, a supervisory editor at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press, has been named to the new position of AP deputy editor for the South.
The appointment was announced Monday by South Editor Brian Carovillano.

Pane has been supervisory editor for the past year, working to coordinate coverage with AP bureaus and media platforms on the top stories of the day. From 2002 to 2007, she was the news editor for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, overseeing such coverage as the Big Dig tunnel collapse, the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese and the Rhode Island nightclub fire.

She will be based in Atlanta, home of the newly created South desk. It is the first of four planned U.S. regional desks.

She will work closely with Carovillano to lead AP's news coverage in a territory that stretches from Maryland to Florida and west to Louisiana, encompassing 13 states and the District of Columbia.

Pane was the correspondent in Providence, R.I., from 2001-2002. She also worked for the AP in Hartford, Conn., from 1991 to 1996, covering Connecticut state government. She left the AP in 1996 and became an equities reporter for Reuters in New York, and later director of press and policy for the Connecticut attorney general. She returned to the AP in 2000 as the night supervisor in Boston.

Pane, 46, also has worked for the Brattleboro (Vt.) Reformer and The Hartford Courant. She is a native of West Hartford and a graduate of Northeastern University.