AP names new business editor

A founding editor of USA Today who helped launch the newspaper's Money section has been named business editor of The Associated Press. Hal Ritter will be responsible for global coverage of financial news.
Ritter, 56, replaces Kevin Noblet, who resigned.
Kristin Gazlay, AP's managing editor for financial news and global training, announced his appointment Monday.
Ritter began working for AP as a business-side consultant in February 2006, and became director of special projects in April 2007. He was one of the architects of AP's Money & Markets service.
Ritter joined USA Today three months before its 1982 launch as deputy managing editor of the Money section. He became managing editor of Money in 1985 and moved to the News section as managing editor in 1995. He left the paper in 2004.
Before USA Today, he was business editor and assistant city editor at the now-defunct Times-Union newspaper in Rochester, N.Y.
He has a journalism degree from the University of Kansas and an MBA from Stanford Business School.
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