Four Reporters, Three Countries, One Paper

It seems like the 15th Street newsroom is generating a fair bit of news today.

In an international game of musical chairs, the Post’s Miami bureau chief Manuel Roig-Franzia is going to be the new bureau chief in Mexico, as the talented dual Mexico City team of Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan head to the British Isles and the writing seat occupied by Glenn Frankel. After two tours in America’s former colonial capital Frankel will be coming back to the States.

We’d normally make a joke here about how it takes two reporters to replace the über-reporter Frankel, but Sullivan/Jordan (or Sulldan as they’ll be known in the movie) are pretty talented too. They, you might remember, authored last month’s Prison Angel, published by Penguin Books.

Full Mexico City announcement after the jump.

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We’re pleased to announce that Manuel Roig-Franzia will become our next Mexico City bureau chief, replacing Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan, who are heading to London.

In three years as Miami bureau chief, Manuel traveled widely through the South and wrote with flair and versatility about such topics as the Schiavo case, the emotional impact of the war in Iraq and the devastation of Hurricane Charley in a little town called Peace River. We’re excited that he’ll be turning his attention to a new and vivid landscape that stretches from Tijuana to Caracas.

Manuel came to The Post in 2000 from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, where he covered the Edwin Edwards corruption case and the state capitol. At the Post, he was a general assignment reporter in the Anne Arundel County bureau before heading to Miami.

Born in Huelva, Spain, Manuel grew up near Modesto in the Central Valley of California. He graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1989 with a degree in English Literature and earned a masters from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1995.

Manuel’s move to Mexico will come later this summer.

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