02/01/07

Kevin O'Hanlon named AP Nebraska news editor

NEW YORK -- Kevin O'Hanlon, the Lincoln correspondent for The Associated Press, has been promoted to AP news editor for Nebraska.

The appointment was announced Jan. 29 by Tena Haraldson, chief of bureau for North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska.

O'Hanlon joined the AP in Dallas in 1995 and worked in the AP's Cincinnati bureau before becoming Lincoln correspondent in 1998.

A native of Blair, Neb., O'Hanlon started his journalism career in 1984 at the Beatrice (Neb.) Daily Sun. He also worked for The Argus Leader of Sioux Falls, S.D.; The Lincoln Star; the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal; The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Omaha World-Herald.

O'Hanlon holds bachelor of science degrees in journalism and criminal justice from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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