02/05/07

Wayne Parry named Atlantic City correspondent for The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Wayne Parry, a reporter for The Associated Press in Newark, has been promoted to correspondent for the news cooperative in Atlantic City.

Parry will be the AP's primary reporter covering Atlantic City, southeast New Jersey and the Jersey shore.

The appointment was announced Feb. 5 by New Jersey Chief of Bureau Richard Brack. Parry succeeds John Curran, who was named the AP's correspondent in Montpelier, Vt.

Parry is an award-winning reporter with 23 years of full-time journalism experience in New Jersey. He joined the AP in Trenton in 1998 after working at four daily newspapers in the state: The Daily Journal of Elizabeth, The News Tribune of Woodbridge, the Asbury Park Press of Neptune, and The Star-Ledger of Newark.

Parry was assigned to the AP's Newark bureau in 2001, where he covered the state's response to the Sept. 11 attacks. He has received numerous awards for his post-Sept. 11 coverage of the Muslim community in New Jersey and across the nation.

A native of Elizabeth and lifelong New Jersey resident, Parry graduated from Columbia University in 1984 with a bachelor of arts degree in English.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720