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06/01/07
AP Press Release
Alan Clendenning appointed Associated Press bureau chief in
Sao Paulo, Brazil
NEW YORK -- Alan Clendenning, a Brazil-based business writer
for The Associated Press, has been named AP's chief of bureau
in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
He will direct news coverage in South America's largest nation,
where AP has three offices, the AP's Latin America editor,
Niko Price, announced May 29 in Mexico City. Clendenning will
succeed Harold Olmos, who retired in December.
Clendenning joined the AP in 1998 in New Orleans. He transferred
to AP's business desk in New York, where he covered mergers
and acquisitions, and was posted in 2002 to Sao Paulo.
"I'm thrilled with the chance to oversee strong team
coverage of a fascinating nation that's becoming more and
more important on the world stage," Clendenning said.
In Brazil, Clendenning has covered both business and general
news from the industrialized south to the Amazon rainforest,
including Brazil's worsening gang violence, its rise as an
agricultural superpower and alternative energy supplier, and
the two terms of its first working-class president.
"Alan understands the nexus between politics, economics
and social change in Brazil. He will be a terrific leader
in coverage of this emerging 21st century giant," said
John Daniszewski, the AP's international editor in New York.
Born in Bethesda, Maryland, and raised in Hanover, New Hampshire,
Clendenning graduated with a journalism degree from Emerson
College in Boston. He is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
Before joining AP, Clendenning wrote for the Portland (Maine)
Press Herald and the Keene (New Hampshire) Sentinel.
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