AP Names Lee Enterprise Chairman Mary Junck Board Chair

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Mary Junck, AP board vice chair and chairman of Lee
Enterprises, has been named board chair of the worldwide news net. She succeeds
William Dean Singleton, who has completed his five-year term.

Junck is also in charge of the search committee seeking a
replacement for AP President Tom Curley.

Junck, who has been a board member since 2004, is former EVP
of Times Mirror and former publisher of that company's Baltimore Sun newspaper. Her other posts include stints at the Miami Herald and Charlotte Observer.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.