Associated Press Appoints Clay Haswell to New International Position.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. has named Clay Haswell to the new position of regional director-global business for Asia and the Pacific. Haswell is currently AP bureau chief for California and Nevada, and is based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . The appointment was announced Wednesday by John Keitt, senior vice president for global business. "In his previous roles, Clay Haswell has elevated The AP in journalism, customer relationships and cultural understanding," said Associated Press President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Tom Curley. "He will build on those skills to lead AP's efforts to capture a greater share of the transforming Asian marketplace." Haswell first joined the AP in 1982, as a reporter in Providence, R.I., and went on to work for AP in Boston and Minneapolis until 1990. He rejoined AP in 1999 as a California bureau chief, after serving as executive editor and vice president of Lesher Communications. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission and is a founder of the World Free Press Institute, a non-profit organization that trains journalists in developing countries. |
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