Pittsburgh biz editor named editor of regional section

Andrew Fraser, the business editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, has been named editor of the Valley News Dispatch edition of the Tribune-Review.

Brian C. Rittmeyer writes, “Before coming to the Tribune-Review, Fraser was an assistant bureau chief with The Associated Press in Philadelphia from 2006 to 2012, and a news editor with the AP in Miami from 2002 to 2006.

“He also worked as a deputy national editor and deputy money and investing editor with The Wall Street Journal Online from 1998 to 2002. He was a supervising editor and business writer with the AP in New York from 1994 to 1998, and a newsman and business writer for the AP in Hartford, Conn., from 1990 to 1994.

“‘It’s an exciting opportunity for me to come to the paper and continue the good work that the staff has done in providing our readers in the Valley with important news about what’s happening in their communities,’ Fraser said. ‘We’ll keep providing them great stories about local people and issues that are of interest to them. We plan to keep strengthening our journalism and making sure readers are happy with what we provide to them as a newspaper.

“‘We’ll tell great stories,’ Fraser said. ‘We’ll get people the news that they can use and tell them things that they want to know.'”

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