12/21/05

Frank Baker named AP assistant chief of bureau in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- Frank Baker, a news editor for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., has been appointed assistant chief of bureau in Los Angeles for Southern California and Southern Nevada.

The appointment was announced Dec. 12 by Anthony Marquez, Los Angeles chief of bureau.

Since 2002, Baker has been assignment news editor in charge of coverage including the Supreme Court, Justice Department, Transportation Department, Treasury Department and Federal Reserve Bank. He came to the Washington bureau in 2000 as the news editor responsible for 16 regional reporters who cover news in the nation's capital of interest to their states.

Baker joined AP in 1988 in the Buffalo, N.Y., bureau and later became a reporter in Concord, N.H. He was the Providence, R.I., correspondent for three years before his appointment in 1997 as news editor in Nashville, Tenn.

He is a native of Voorheesville, N.Y., and a journalism graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Baker succeeds Howard Goldberg, who was named chief of bureau for New York City.

Contact: Jack Stokes, AP Corporate Communications, 212.621.1720