Appointed to bureau chief
4-4-1994
^AP Names Two Foreign Chiefs of Bureau
NEW YORK (AP) _ New chiefs of bureau for The Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, and Bogota, Colombia, were appointed Monday by Louis D. Boccardi, president and chief executive of the news cooperative.
Kevin Costelloe, currently in Berlin as news editor for Germany, becomes chief of Nordic services in Stockholm with responsibility for AP operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. He succeeds Andrew Torchia, who is retiring after 33 years with the AP.
Andrew Selsky, a newsman in Bogota since last October, has been promoted to chief of bureau there, succeeding Tom Wells, who returned to the United States late last year after heading the bureau for 15 years. Wells is now assigned to the AP's Miami bureau.
Costelloe, 41, has been with the AP 16 years. He joined in Washington in 1978, moved to the Foreign Desk in New York in 1982 and entered the foreign service in Rome in 1983. He has been news editor in Germany since 1985.
A native of New York City, Costelloe is a graduate of Brown University and the Boston University Law School.
Selsky, 38, joined the AP as a newsman in Kansas City in 1987, and worked on the International Desk in New York from 1990 to 1993. He previously worked for the AP as a temporary staffer in Los Angeles in 1984 and then as a full- time stringer in Honduras and Nicaragua for two years.
Born in Washington, D.C., Selsky holds a degree in communications and international studies from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Torchia, 57, joined the AP in New York in 1961 and worked in London before serving as chief of bureau in Nairobi, Lisbon and Johannesburg. A native of Lancaster, Pa., he is a graduate of Yale University.
^AP Names Two Foreign Chiefs of Bureau
NEW YORK (AP) _ New chiefs of bureau for The Associated Press in Stockholm, Sweden, and Bogota, Colombia, were appointed Monday by Louis D. Boccardi, president and chief executive of the news cooperative.
Kevin Costelloe, currently in Berlin as news editor for Germany, becomes chief of Nordic services in Stockholm with responsibility for AP operations in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark. He succeeds Andrew Torchia, who is retiring after 33 years with the AP.
Andrew Selsky, a newsman in Bogota since last October, has been promoted to chief of bureau there, succeeding Tom Wells, who returned to the United States late last year after heading the bureau for 15 years. Wells is now assigned to the AP's Miami bureau.
Costelloe, 41, has been with the AP 16 years. He joined in Washington in 1978, moved to the Foreign Desk in New York in 1982 and entered the foreign service in Rome in 1983. He has been news editor in Germany since 1985.
A native of New York City, Costelloe is a graduate of Brown University and the Boston University Law School.
Selsky, 38, joined the AP as a newsman in Kansas City in 1987, and worked on the International Desk in New York from 1990 to 1993. He previously worked for the AP as a temporary staffer in Los Angeles in 1984 and then as a full- time stringer in Honduras and Nicaragua for two years.
Born in Washington, D.C., Selsky holds a degree in communications and international studies from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.
Torchia, 57, joined the AP in New York in 1961 and worked in London before serving as chief of bureau in Nairobi, Lisbon and Johannesburg. A native of Lancaster, Pa., he is a graduate of Yale University.
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