08/08/06

Richard Brack named chief of bureau for The Associated Press in New Jersey

NEW YORK -- Richard Brack, assistant chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Chicago, has been promoted to chief of bureau in Trenton, N.J.

The appointment was announced Aug. 8 by John O. Lumpkin, the AP's vice president/business operations for U.S. newspaper markets. Brack succeeds Jodie DeJonge, who has been appointed chief of bureau for Washington state and Idaho.

Brack joined the AP in February 2005 from the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, where he had been managing editor since 1999. Brack started at the Journal-World in 1997 as business editor.

He worked from 1991 to 1997 for The Des Moines Register, where he was a copy editor, business reporter and assistant Iowa editor. Earlier, Brack worked at the Kansas City Times.

A native of Great Bend, Kan., Brack is a 1990 graduate of the University of Kansas, where he studied at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720