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AP names new European business editor

November 9, 2007

Posted by Chris Roush

David McHugh, bureau chief for the Associated Press in Germany and Poland, will become the AP’s business editor for Europe at the beginning of next year, according to an AP styory.

The story stated, “McHugh succeeds Amy Finkelstein, who will become an editor for the business news department in New York after three years in London.

Associated Press“McHugh joined the AP in Moscow in 2000 and transferred a year later to Frankfurt, where he led AP’s coverage of German business. He previously spent three years in Russia working for the English-language Moscow Times, where he served as news editor. He also worked at the Detroit Free Press from 1985 to 1997. Before that McHugh reported for the Macomb Daily in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.

“‘This is a great opportunity to work with a top-flight team of business writers and further develop our excellent European business report. More and more, the really big news out of Europe is the economic story,’ McHugh said.”

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