Orangeburg native Damion Waymer has been selected as the next director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of South Carolina’s College of Information and Communications. more

Laney Griffo has been a part of the Tahoe Tribune staff since 2019, where she began as a reporter. more

Joe Murray died at his home Sunday, June 25, at the age of 82. Services will be at 2 p.m. July 5 at First Baptist Church. more

PolitiFact editor and pioneer of fact-checking movement to take on director’s role; Ferdi Ferhat Özsoy named deputy director. 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

Mark Grant will be joining The Associated Press later this year as vice president for global security and safety. He will be based in London. more

George Gedda, a workhorse veteran of The Associated Press whose coverage of the State Department and international relations spanned more than four decades and who played a major role in explaining U.S. foreign policy to the American public from Vietnam to Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, has died. He was 82. more

A successful community foundation veteran and a prominent tech pioneer join Knight’s board of trustees. more

David McChesney has joined Wick Communications as publisher of the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman in Wasilla, Alaska. His first day was June 19. more

Frank Perea will join the Williston (North Dakota) Herald and Sidney (Montana) Herald as publisher July 10. more

Kathleen McElroy will join the Department of Communication and Journalism as part of A&M's renewed effort to train the next generation of media professionals. more

The USA TODAY Network-Florida has hired its own Douglas Soule to be its inaugural First Amendment reporter. more

The University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, which is dedicated to helping sustain local journalism in rural America, will have a new director on Aug. 16. more

John C. Tompkins, 69, of Tucson, Arizona, passed on June 2. He grew up in a newspaper family and at the young age of 21 purchased The Rochelle (Illinois) News-Leader in 1975.  For the next 48 years, he grew News Media Corporation to over 75 publications spanning across nine states. more

Christopher Kirkpatrick has been hired as senior editor at The Fresno Bee. Most recently, Kirkpatrick was deputy director of content development at Consumer Reports. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced that legendary Atlanta broadcaster Monica Pearson will join the AJC as the host of a new weekly video program and podcast, "The Monica Pearson Show," and as an AJC contributor. Pearson will also write a regular lifestyle newsletter and column for both AJC.com and the newspaper, in addition to hosting AJC Live events. more

The Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) and Johnstown Magazine advertising sales director Mary Anne Rizzo is retiring July 31 after 35 years with The Tribune-Democrat organization. more

Clarice Touhey, most recently publisher of two North Dakota newspapers, has been named general manager of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. more

Fanny Weiland has done two stints in the business office at the Sierra Vista Herald/Review Media, the most recent as business manager beginning in July 2021. She began her new position June 1. more

Peter Baniak, editor of the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader, has been promoted to become McClatchy’s vice president of news for small and medium markets. more