02/14/2005

Leicester named AP bureau chief in Paris

NEW YORK -- John Leicester, correspondent for The Associated Press in Paris, has been promoted to chief of bureau.

The announcement was made Feb. 14 by Deborah Seward, AP's international editor.

Leicester will be responsible for directing coverage in France and North Africa.

Leicester joined the AP in 1993 in Hong Kong. He transferred to Beijing in 1996, serving six years as correspondent and later as news editor there. He was named correspondent in Paris in 2002.

Leicester is a graduate of the University of Leeds, England.

Contact: Ellen Hale, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720