Caption: Free Press names new Lansing Bureau chief. Free Press staff writer Chris Christoff will become chief of the paper's Lansing Bureau in March, succeeding Tim Jones. Jones, who has been bureau chief since 1983, will become the paper's Canada correspondent next month and will be based in Toronto. Christoff, 35, who joined the Free Press in 1983, has been a member of the Lansing Bureau since January 1987. He has had a variety of assignments at the Free Press, including covering Wayne County government and the gubernatorial campaign of former Wayne County Executive William Lucas. Christoff, a native of Dearborn, has a bachelor's degree in communications from Michigan State University, and did pot-graduate work in journalism at Wayne State University. Before joining the Free Press, he was a reporter for the Flint Journal and the Detroit suburban Mellus Newspapers. He and his wife, Marcy, and their two children live in East Lansing.
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