SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Associated Press has named Brady McCombs, a border and political reporter for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, as its new correspondent in Salt Lake City.
McCombs will serve as supervisory correspondent for the AP, reporting on breaking news and enterprise and directing the overall report for the cooperative in Utah. He has worked at the Arizona Daily Star since 2006, covering border and immigration issues and most recently politics ahead of the 2012 election.
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McCombs, 33, has led several investigations in his time at the newspaper, including an in-depth project on deaths along the busiest stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for immigrant and drug smuggling. He was named Journalist of the Year on three occasions by the Arizona Newspaper Association, in 2007, 2008 and 2011. He also was the recipient of the prestigious Virg Hill Arizona Journalist of the Year award by the Arizona Press Club in 2007.
“Brady is a talented reporter and writer with an eye for investigative stories, and the AP is proud to have a journalist of his caliber directing the Utah report,” said Traci Carl, AP’s director of news for the Western U.S.
McCombs graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Costa Rica for three years before becoming a reporter in Greeley, Colo., and then Tucson.
