In a memo to staff on Wednesday, U.S. News Director Josh Hoffner announced several promotions and hires across the United States. more

Deborah Douglas will lead efforts to provide training in solutions journalism. more

Saeed Ahmed is joining The Associated Press as its first vice president of news for digital platforms. more

Grant Gibbons has been announced as publisher of The Journal, in New Ulm, Minnesota, and The Independent of Marshall. He will be replacing Greg Orear, publisher since 2016. Orear has taken a publishing position with a newspaper group in Missouri. more

Debi Richardson has joined the South Carolina paper as its new graphic designer. more

On the heels of announcing the hiring of its new editor in chief, John Anastasi, the Bucks County Herald (Doylestown, Pennsylvania) has tapped newspaper advertising veteran William “Bill” Cotter to serve as its new director of advertising sales. more

Peter Baumann, who has served as editor of the Post Independent since late August 2019, was named publisher in December.  more

CherryRoad Media has announced the promotion of industry veteran Lee Bachlet to the role of chief operating officer. more

Joel Simon, who has worked tirelessly as a champion of press freedom around the world, will join the Newmark J-School on Feb. 1 as the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative. more

As the Herald and News bid 2022 farewell and greeted the new year, the staff met its new publisher and said goodbye to the long-standing head of the newspaper. more

A former intern with the AJC, Taylor Croft will now be reporting on the local news team covering the cities of Marietta, Smyrna, Mableton and Decatur, as well as major news in other small cities in metro Atlanta. more

Susan Ellis has been named chief financial officer for Wick Communications. more

The GroundTruth Project, home of Report for America and Report for the World, has selected Rob Zeaske as its CEO and president, following a national search launched last summer. Zeaske will step into the role on Jan. 23, a return of sorts as he was the nonprofit’s chief operations officer from 2019-2020. more

Mackenzie Warren, a top news executive at the nation’s largest local news publishing company, has been named director of the new Local News Accelerator at Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. more

Sales and advertising veteran Ken Henry has joined the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch as vice president of advertising. more

Peter Frank, who currently oversees coverage of breaking and trending news in Green Bay and at other sites in the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin, will lead local news coverage at the Press-Gazette and serve as the primary contact for readers and Green Bay-area community leaders. more

Veteran Press & Dakotan (Yankton, South Dakota) Digital Media Director/Advertising Sales Representative Beth Rye has taken up the reins as advertising director, while longtime advertising director Micki Schievelbein transitions to semi-retirement. more

Bluegrass Newsmedia has announced that Jeff Kuerzi has been appointed president and publisher of Bluegrass Newsmedia and LocalDigitalKY. more

Gerardine Mobley has been named Advance Local’s first VP of diversity & inclusion and will work collaboratively across the organization to further the company’s D&I efforts. more

The Philadelphia Inquirer has named Layla Jones as its economic equity reporter. more