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New Seattle bureau
New Address for Seattle AP bureau
The AP has moved its Seattle
bureau from one downtown location to another. The new address is:
3131 Elliott Ave., Suite 750
Seattle, WA, 98121
The old AP office at 201 Boren Ave. North was in a building owned by The Seattle Times, which needed AP's space. The move occurred April 27-28, 30 years and one month to the day that the AP had moved into the Boren location from the Times building.
The new office has about 1,000 additional square feet, most of it used to expand the newsroom. It is about one block from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer building.
New appointments: Chief of Communications, Olympia Correspondent
Ken Fields has been named Chief of Communications in Seattle. He succeeds Charlie Price, who retired last year. Ken joined the AP in St. Louis as a Technician in 1978. He was promoted to Operations Manager in 1989 in Chicago and became Chief of Communications there in 1991. Ken is a native of Alton, Illinois. He graduated from Lewis and Clark College with an Associates degree in Electronics and also attended Southern Illinois University.
Paul Queary has been named statehouse correspondent in charge of the AP's Olympia bureau. The appointment was announced by Seattle Chief of Bureau Dale Leach. Queary joined the AP in Portland, Ore., in 1990. He transferred to Oklahoma City four years later and helped cover the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh. Queary had been correspondent in Juneau since 1998. He is a graduate of Carleton College and operated a weekly newspaper in the Portland area before joining the AP. Queary, 35, replaces Hunter T. George, who resigned to work for The News Tribune of Tacoma.
