Former LJ World editor named to AP news editor post

Julie Wright, an editor who has held senior newsroom management positions in Kansas, Alaska, Minnesota and Tennessee over a three-decade journalism career, has been named news editor for The Associated Press in Missouri and Kansas.

The appointment was announced Thursday by Tom Berman, the AP’s Central regional editor.

Based in Kansas City, Mo., Wright will oversee the AP’s reporting efforts throughout Kansas and Missouri, with an emphasis on leading AP’s reporters in breaking exclusive stories across formats.

Wright, 52, most recently worked as managing editor of the Lawrence Journal-World, planning and editing news coverage for the print and digital editions as well as supervising other print and digital publications owned by The World Company, based in Lawrence, Kansas.