December 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Micronesia: Arizona Republic: Micronesia RPCV Steve Wilson has been named as the new director of communications for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
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December 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Micronesia: Arizona Republic: Micronesia RPCV Steve Wilson has been named as the new director of communications for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
Micronesia RPCV Steve Wilson has been named as the new director of communications for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
Micronesia RPCV Steve Wilson has been named as the new director of communications for Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard
Ex-'Republic' editor is new aide to Goddard
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 26, 2004 12:00 AM
Former Arizona Republic deputy managing editor Steve Wilson has been named as the new director of communications for Attorney General Terry Goddard.
He replaces Juliet Peters, who returned to the private practice of law in September. His salary as Goddard's chief media spokesman is $91,000 a year.
Wilson brings more than 30 years of newspaper experience to his new duties. For much of the past decade, he was with The Arizona Republic as both columnist and deputy managing editor. Prior to that, Wilson served as editor of the Scottsdale Progress, where he was twice named Arizona's Community Journalist of the Year.
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Wilson said he met and became friends with Goddard when he moved to the Valley in 1988. Wilson left The Republic in the summer to work as a fund-raiser for a new non-profit animal shelter in Flagstaff.
"The shelter is doing fine and I feel a little bad about leaving there that soon," said Wilson, who lives in Scottsdale. "But I missed my wife, and I missed public affairs stuff, which is what this job is all about."
Wilson holds a B.A. in American history from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. In 1993, he was chosen for a Bradshaw Fellowship in the Humanities at Claremont Graduate School in California, and has taught as an adjunct professor at Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. He is also a former Peace Corps volunteer, serving in Micronesia.
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