05/04/07

Jim Clarke promoted to AP chief of bureau for Colorado and Utah

NEW YORK -- Jim Clarke, bureau chief for The Associated Press in Helena, Mont., has been named the news cooperative's chief of bureau for Colorado and Utah.

Clarke previously worked as news editor in the Kansas City, Salt Lake City and Anchorage, Alaska, bureaus. He was named bureau chief for Montana and Wyoming in March 2005.

The appointment was announced May 4 by John Lumpkin, the AP's vice president/business operations for U.S. Newspaper Markets.

Clarke will be based in Denver. He succeeds George Garties, who was promoted to Illinois bureau chief earlier this year.

Before joining the AP in Anchorage in 1993, Clarke worked for The Westerly (R.I.) Sun, the Fairfax (Va.) Journal and The Energy Daily in Washington, D.C. He transferred to the Columbia, S.C., bureau in 1993 before returning to Anchorage in 1995.

Clarke is a native of West Warwick, R.I., and a 1987 journalism graduate of George Washington University. He earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1990.

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