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

Tom Mayer, editor of CNHI’s Alabama newspapers, including The Cullman Times, The News Courier in Athens and St. Clair News-Aegis in Pell City, has been named general manager-editor of the group. more

SCS is excited to announce the hiring of Winter Goodman as an applications developer and Ryan Johnson as a sales and marketing analyst. In addition, SCS is also thrilled to continue its Summer Internship program with three returning interns and two new interns. more

The executive director of the Missouri Press Association was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers, Inc. (NAM), during the group's 100th Annual Summer Conference Aug. 4 in Denver, the city where the organization was founded in 1923. more

Robert Giles, 90, a former editor and publisher of The Detroit News, died Monday, Aug. 7, after battling metastatic melanoma. more

Devon Stout, general manager-circulation director of The Meadville (Pennsylvania) Tribune, has been promoted to publisher of the newspaper. more

Sharon Sorg, a regional executive for CNHI, LLC — the parent company of The Daily Item and The Danville News  — has been named the publisher of the two newspapers in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. more

James Briggs, general manager-advertising director of the Ashtabula (Ohio) Star Beacon, has been promoted to publisher of the newspaper. more

Jeff Funk, retired publisher of the Enid (Oklahoma) News & Eagle, has returned to the newspaper as publisher and editor, effective immediately. more

McClatchy has named Carlos Virgen as senior editor at The Modesto (California) Bee, starting Aug. 21. more

The Durango (Colorado) Herald recently welcomed its new deputy editor, who looks to emphasize more solution-based and enterprise journalism. more

Ava Buttacavoil will be covering crime, courts, schools and community reporting in a variety of communities in eastern Dane and Jefferson counties. more

Vice President and Regional Publisher Terry Ward is leaving Sound Publishing to start his own newspaper group and passing on the torch to Eran Kennedy as publisher of the Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, Washington), Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum. more

Woodward Communications, Inc. (WCI), an employee-owned company headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa, announced today that, as part of a long-term succession planning process, Mike Fortman will succeed Bob Woodward as TH Media publisher and VP of Woodward Community Media (WCM) in January 2024.    more

Veteran newspaper executive Katherine Miller has been appointed publisher of the Norman (Oklahoma) Transcript, the newspaper announced. Miller was the group publisher of three Alabama newspapers owned by The Transcript’s parent company, CNHI, LLC. more

In her second stint with the Enid (Oklahoma) News & Eagle, Cindy Allen has served as publisher and editor since early 2021. more

Eliza Gaines, the publisher of WEHCO Newspapers, Inc., the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's parent company, was installed Friday, July 21, as the newest president of the Arkansas Press Association. more

Damon Kiesow is now the Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism, an update from his previous title of Knight Chair in Digital Editing and Producing. The new title reflects the evolution of the endowed chair position and Kiesow’s research and service as he finishes his fifth year at the School. more

Rolfe Neill, publisher of The Charlotte Observer from 1975 until his retirement in 1997, died July 14 at age 90 of complications from peritoneal cancer, his daughter Ingrid Ebert of Kernersville said. more

Robin Phelan, a long-time newspaper executive and advertising director, has been appointed publisher of The Joplin (Missouri) Globe. more