Press Releases

05/06/2010

Korte named AP correspondent in New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Tim Korte, an Associated Press newsman and sports writer, has been named AP's supervisory correspondent in Albuquerque.

The appointment was announced Thursday by Linda Ashton, AP news editor for Arizona and New Mexico.

Korte, 42, joined AP as an editorial assistant in Albuquerque in 1991 and was promoted to newsman in 1993. In 1997, he moved to Omaha, Neb., where he covered the University of Nebraska football team and the College World Series.

He transferred to Salt Lake City in 1999, covering the NBA, college sports and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee ahead of the 2002 Winter Olympics. After the Olympics, he moved to Seattle and covered professional and college sports.

Since returning to Albuquerque in 2005, he has covered sports and elections while maintaining beats on federal courts, energy and immigration issues. He served as interim news editor from July 2009 to February 2010.

Korte grew up in Farmington, N.M., and holds bachelor's degrees in English and journalism from the University of New Mexico.