08/27/2004

Barbieri named AP news editor for New York City

NEW YORK – Richard Barbieri, editor in chief of Legal Times in Washington, has been named Associated Press news editor for New York City.

The appointment was announced May 13 by Jocelyn Noveck, New York City chief of bureau.

Barbieri has been editor in chief of Legal Times, a weekly covering law, politics and government, since 1999.

He began his career covering law and courts in 1987 at Manhattan Lawyer, a newspaper published by American Lawyer Media. He went on to The Recorder, a daily legal newspaper in San Francisco, where he spent seven years as a reporter and executive editor. He also worked for two years as an editor at The American Lawyer, the flagship magazine of American Lawyer Media.

Barbieri is a native of New York, born in Forest Hills, Queens. He attended St. John's University and Hunter College in New York.

He succeeds William Sweeney, who resigned.