10/31/2003
Judith Ingram, Moscow news editor for The Associated Press, named bureau chief

NEW YORK -- Judith Ingram, news editor for The Associated Press in Moscow, has been promoted to chief of bureau there.

The appointment was announced Friday by Kathleen Carroll, AP senior vice president and executive editor.

Ingram has been news editor in Moscow since 1999.

In her new post, she succeeds Deborah Seward, who has been named AP's international editor.

Ingram joined AP's international desk in 1994 and transferred to Vienna in 1996, where she covered Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She became a correspondent in Moscow in 1998.

She grew up in Washington, D.C., graduated with a degree in Russian studies from Bryn Mawr College and holds a master's degree in Soviet and East European Studies from Harvard University.

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