Longtime AP reporter to edit Tennessee Journal

Erik Schelzig, Tennessee statehouse reporter for the Associated Press for more than a decade, will leave that position to become editor of the Tennessee Journal in the new year.

Schelzig (pictured, interviewing Gov. Bill Haslam) will succeed Ed Cromer, who retired from the state political publication after 20 years at its helm. Schelzig held previous positions at the Washington Post and German newspaper Der Spiegel.