01/25/07

James Anderson named Colorado AP news editor

NEW YORK -- James M. Anderson, deputy day news editor at The Miami Herald and a former foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, has been named Colorado news editor for the AP.

The appointment was announced Jan. 25 by Colorado-Utah Chief of Bureau George Garties.

Anderson succeeds Dave Zelio, who was promoted to assistant chief of bureau in Illinois.

Anderson joined the Herald in 2004 as night city editor and helped plan and edit coverage of a series of hurricanes as well as local politics, government and other issues.

He joined the AP in 1987 in Mexico City, and worked in the Los Angeles bureau and on the International Desk in New York.

He was named correspondent in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1995, and chief of bureau in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2000. There he supervised coverage of a turbulent period in Venezuela's history, including a brief coup against President Hugo Chavez.

A native of Syracuse, N.Y., Anderson holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a master's from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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