Jeff Dorsey has been named chief operating officer of McClatchy, effective immediately, after serving nine months as the company’s senior vice president of transformation. In this newly-created role, Dorsey’s portfolio will expand to include responsibility for the company’s technology and supply chain, as well as the entirety of its finance operation. These new responsibilities are in addition to his existing oversight of all aspects of McClatchy’s digitally-driven business transformation. more

Laura Manley will be joining the Shorenstein Center as its next executive director. She is currently director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs' Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Project at Harvard Kennedy School, and is an experienced leader in higher education and non-governmental organizations, with over a decade of experience using data and technology for the health of democratic societies. more

Clarice Touhey has been named publisher of the Williston Herald and Sidney Herald in Montana for Wick Communications. more

I can’t begin to tell you how proud, honored and privileged I feel today addressing you as the new editor of The Rogersville (Tennessee) Review. more

Colin McMahon is stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune. The last day for the longtime Tribune reporter, editor and executive, who also serves as chief content officer for Tribune Publishing, will be Aug. 20.

Succeeding McMahon will be Mitch Pugh, who has been named executive editor of the Chicago Tribune after eight years in the same role at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. His first day will be Aug. 30. more

Beth Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers during the group’s 98th annual summer conference in Madison, Wisconsin. more

Tampa Bay Newspapers Associate Publisher Jay Rey has been named publisher for the organization, which includes publications in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties. more

ProPublica announced on Monday that it had hired George Papajohn as a senior editor. Papajohn will help edit projects from the national newsroom and ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network. He starts on Aug. 16. Papajohn comes to ProPublica from BuzzFeed News, where he served as an investigative editor. more

ING’s President, Mark Hall, of Post Media Network, announced today the addition of a new board member, Jason Elliott, vice president sales of manrolandGoss. more

Ralph Langer, a retired editor and executive vice president of The Dallas Morning News who led the newsroom during one of the most closely watched daily newspaper wars of the 1980s and 1990s, has died. more

The Washington Post today announced Michelle Jaconi will be head of news talent strategy and development, effective Aug. 16. In this newly created role, Jaconi will lead talent development initiatives across a variety of formats and emerging platforms, creating features and products to amplify the voices and personalities of Post journalists. She will also identify opportunities to showcase journalists’ signature styles and connect their work with a broader audience. more

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who wrote about rock when music journalists were just beginning to take it seriously, and through her work met Jim Morrison, frontman of the Doors, with whom she said she had a marriage of sorts, died on July 23. She was 75. more

Sewell Chan, the current editorial page editor and former deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be The Texas Tribune’s next editor-in-chief. more

Annabelle Timsit will join The Washington Post as a breaking-news reporter at its new hub in London. She will be part of a team that will play a key role in The Post's global expansion. more

Known as a journalist who asked tough questions and an all-around stand-up guy, former Associated Press correspondent and public servant Ed Moreno has died. He was 67. His family said Moreno died July 27 of a brain tumor at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 18. more

Erin Cunningham will become Foreign’s evening editor of The Washington Post, steering breaking-news coverage through a critical part of the day. more

Rachel Kersey, the Beaumont Enterprise’s new government reporter, said from a young age, she had two distinct attributes — she loved to read and she asked a lot of questions, no matter how bold. more

Digital news leader Jim Brady will join the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as vice president/journalism. Heidi Barker, a former NBC Network News producer turned corporate communications executive, will be Knight’s new vice president/communications and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. more

Brent Jones has been unanimously elected president of the Dow Jones News Fund (DJNF) by its Board of Directors, succeeding Dick Levine, who is retiring. more

Emily Walsh has been named president of the Observer Media Group, a family-owned and operated multimedia company. In her new role she will continue a multigenerational lineage at the helm of the Florida media company. more