10/14/05

Traci Carl promoted to chief of bureau for Mexico and Central America for The Associated Press

NEW YORK -- Traci Carl, news editor for The Associated Press in Mexico and Central America, has been promoted to chief of bureau.

The appointment was announced Oct. 14 in New York by Deborah Seward, AP's international editor.

Carl will be responsible for coverage of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

She succeeds Eloy O. Aguilar, who has taken on a new role as administrative director for the region. Aguilar also will continue to be involved in the news and business operations of the bureau.

Carl joined AP in 1995 in Topeka, Kan., and transferred to Kansas City later that year. She was named correspondent for Wichita, Kan., in 1996 and transferred to the International Desk in New York in 1998.

She moved to Mexico City in 2000 and became news editor there three years later.

In addition to her duties in Mexico and Central America, Carl has reported from Cuba, Venezuela and Iraq.

Carl is a graduate of the University of Kansas and a native of Lawrence, Kan.

contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720