06/03/2005

Tom Verdin named AP correspondent in Sacramento

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Tom Verdin, a veteran California editor and reporter, has been named Sacramento correspondent for The Associated Press.

The appointment was announced June 2 by San Francisco Chief of Bureau John Raess and Los Angeles Chief of Bureau Anthony Marquez.

As Sacramento correspondent, Verdin supervises California's political coverage as well as the news cooperative's staff of reporters in the state's capital.

Verdin joined the AP in Los Angeles in 1999 and was named news editor for Southern California in 2000, supervising AP reporters and editors in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. Before that, he served as city editor for The Sun in San Bernardino.

Verdin began his career reporting for The Union in his hometown, the Sacramento suburb of Grass Valley, Calif. Then he moved to the Times Herald in Port Huron, Mich., covering environmental and education issues. From 1993 to 1997 he was a bureau chief and assistant city editor at The Desert Sun in Palm Springs.

Verdin earned a bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University and a master's from California State University in Dominguez Hills.

contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720