Alan Torres, a recent graduate with a double major in business and journalism from the University of Oregon, has started covering Eugene, Springfield and Lane County governments as a local government reporter for The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon). more

He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point. more

Mark Walker, a veteran Kentucky newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the Richmond Register. more

Publisher Jill Hunt has named Jason Elmquist as managing editor of the Stillwater (Oklahoma) News Press. more

Mark Walker, a veteran Kentucky newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the Richmond Register. more

He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point. more

Financial Times reporter Myles McCormick is expanding his beat beyond energy to include the wider corporate, economic and political scene in Texas. more

Longtime Tribune Chronicle  and Vindicator General Manager Ted Snyder will take the reins in the top leadership role at the local newspapers (Warren, Ohio) following Publisher Charles Jarvis’ recent retirement. more

Metro Market Media has hired a veteran newspaper leader to serve as the company's director of revenue. more

The South Bend (Indiana) Tribune has added a new reporter to its staff dedicated to coverage of high school athletics in Northern Indiana and Southwest Michigan. more

In a landmark appointment, Masha Gessen — named a full professor to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in March — joined the select few who hold the rank of distinguished professor at the City University of New York. more

Vanessa Botelho, an accomplished journalist with a career spanning nearly three decades, is starting a new chapter at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. more

As The Sumter Item continues to evolve, it will soon do so minus one familiar face but with the addition and promotion of two more. more

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