After a national search, the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville will have a new director starting in July, Amy Jo Coffey, a former broadcast journalist who found her calling in higher education. more

The Kerrville (Texas)  Daily Times welcomed its new publisher, Greg Burney, on April 22. He succeeds Jennifer McCullough, who announced her retirement March 6. more

Kim Bates, assistant managing editor of The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, has been promoted to managing editor, succeeding Dave Murray who is retiring. more

Jerry Pye, who has served as publisher of The Marshall (Texas) News Messenger for the past six and a half years, has announced plans to retire at the end of the summer. more

Wendy Fullerton Powell will take on a new role leading local journalism in Southwest Florida as executive editor of Gannett's Naples Daily News. more

Changes are coming to top leadership positions at The Post and Courier as South Carolina’s largest newspaper continues to grow and expand its offerings. more

Mitchell Landsberg, who has led the Los Angeles Times' Foreign/National staff, will become a senior editor for enterprise in January, helping guide ambitious journalism across the newsroom. more

ProPublica announced on Monday that it had hired George Papajohn as a senior editor. Papajohn will help edit projects from the national newsroom and ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. He starts on Aug. 16. Papajohn comes to ProPublica from BuzzFeed News, where he served as an investigative editor. more

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications has announced a new faculty member and the promotion of another as it expands its role in solutions journalism and audio reporting. more

The Associated Press has announced three new roles on the Business News team. more

Tampa Bay Newspapers Associate Publisher Jay Rey has been named publisher for the organization, which includes publications in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties. more

Trevor Baratko has been named editor of InsideNoVa and FauquierNow.com, two properties owned by Rappahannock Media LLC. more

Mallika Sen has been appointed as the new entertainment news editor for The Associated Press, based in New York. She has had several roles at the AP, most recently on the East regional desk, where she’s handled numerous major breaking stories. more

Doug Ames, who has worked at The Daily World for 15 years — most recently as circulation director — has been named interim general sales manager. more

He has been with the paper since May 2019 and previously covered aviation. more

Dan Savage, who twice served as publisher of the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald and also raised longhorn cattle, died early Wednesday at his home following a 15-year battle with cancer. He was 71. more

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and The Philadelphia Inquirer have announced the launch of “Philadelphia: The Future of Work,” an ambitious, yearlong multimedia project focused on the key challenges and opportunities the city faces as it attempts to create more family-sustaining jobs against the backdrop of both the devastating coronavirus pandemic and global protests against systemic racism. more

Steve Bruss, executive editor, said The Greenville News now has 11 full-time reporters in Greenville covering the community. "If you include our newsrooms in Anderson and Spartanburg, across news and sports we have more than 30 reporters and photojournalists covering our corner of South Carolina." more

Sabra Ayres, a longtime foreign correspondent with extensive experience covering Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe, has been named The Associated Press’ chief correspondent for Ukraine. more

Matt Jones has retired from the Paxton Media Group after 25 years of service, serving as The Paducah (Kentucky) Sun’s operational manager from December 2014 to January 2019 and as its general manager since January 2019. more