Miss-Lou Gets New AP Bureau Chief
Mike McQueen, a former managing editor of The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, has been named chief of bureau for The Associated Press in New Orleans. In the job which he took over late last month, McQueen will oversee AP coverage in both Louisiana and Mississippi after the two states were lumped together in an AP reorganization a couple of years ago. McQueen, who attended the MPA convention in Biloxi last month with his predecessor, Hank Ackerman, has already brought on board a new news editor in Louisiana.
In commenting on McQueen’s appoitnment, the Maynard Institute’s Richard Prince notes in his blog that only four African Americans have held the post of bureau chief thus far with AP.
Meanwhile, the amiable Ackerman, who was serving his second tour in New Orleans, is rejoining the AP suits in New York. Ackerman’s latest stint was to oversee transition at the bureau. He previously served as bureau chief in the late 80s.