Chris Fusco, an award-winning editor with more than 30 years of news and leadership experience, will take the helm of The Sacramento Bee as its new executive editor, and as regional editor overseeing McClatchy Media’s California newsrooms. more

Felicia Mason has retired after 38 years with Alabama Press Association, 25 years as executive director. Her successor is Brad English. more

The Minnesota Star Tribune has announced the hiring of Angie Schulke as its new chief product and technology officer. She brings decades of leadership experience in engineering, product development and digital innovation across multiple industries. more

Following a brief battle with cancer, former Wausau Daily Herald columnist and editor Jamie Lynn Orcutt died Aug. 11. more

Roberta Rampton is joining the AP as White House news editor. For the past six years, she has been NPR’s White House editor, overseeing a team of journalists covering the Trump and Biden administrations for NPR’s radio programs, podcasts, website and newscasts. more

Landon Bartlett, who joined the newspaper in July, covers area high schools as well as Oregon State athletics, specifically football and baseball. more

Leonard Tow, devoted philanthropist and longtime champion of journalism education, died peacefully on Sunday, Aug. 10. He was 97. more

The Aspen (Colorado) Times has parted ways with Editor Ray Erku. His final day was Aug. 12. more

The executive director of the North Carolina Press Association was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers, Inc. (NAM), during the group's 102nd Annual Summer Conference Aug. 7 in Asheville, North Carolina. more

Tim Franklin, the founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative and the school’s senior associate dean, will step down from those roles in September as he begins a phased transition to retirement. more

A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with her brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918. more

The Center for Integrity in News Reporting has announced that Cassandra Webb has joined the organization as an independent communications consultant. more

Baumann’s journalistic passion continued after retirement in 2007, teaching photojournalism, newsroom leadership and picture editing at Southern Illinois University. He also started a free online magazine focused on the stories of his beloved Posey County. more

Different people will have different ways of remembering George M. Ewing Jr., the former Canandaigua Daily Messenger newspaper president and publisher, said his son, Brendan Ewing.  Ewing died unexpectedly July 12 in Minneapolis. He was 72. more

Heather Burns has joined USA TODAY as its first women's sports editor. She will lead women's sports content strategy across the USA TODAY Network collaboratively with national and local editors and writers to build on its industry-leading coverage and the recently launched USA TODAY Studio IX. more

Robert A. Daugherty, whose four-decade career with The Associated Press captured history including President Lyndon B. Johnson writing the speech in which he declined reelection, Richard Nixon flashing “V for Victory” signs before leaving the White House in disgrace and Jimmy Carter clasping hands with Middle East leaders after cementing a peace treaty, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 86. more

In a memo to staff, National Security and Foreign Policy Editor Courtney Bonnell announced that Konstantin Toropin will join AP’s Washington team as a Pentagon reporter. more

Allison Shirk, director of digital content and engagement for WEHCO Media, Inc., will step into a new role in August as vice president of content & newsroom strategy for the company's newspapers. more

Legendary sports editor Bob Hammel passed away July 19 at 88 years old. He led the sports department at what became The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Indiana, from 1966 to 1996. more

Known as “Mazz” to the staff, he brought a hard-news approach to USA TODAY in the 1990s. more