sentences:  He served in that position until 1993, when he took over the Knight-Ridder Washington bureau as chief of bureau.Oppel left Knight-Ridder to become editor and vice president of the "Austin American-Statesman" in 1995, retiring from that position in 2008.In 2009 Oppel began work as senior vice president/media for Public Strategies Inc. (PSI) of Austin, serving as a strategy adviser to national firms in finance, law, computers, airlines, energy and telecommunications.