Jeffrey Timmermans, an accomplished business journalist and educator, has been named the Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. more

Philip Gray will be joining the Opinion department at The Los Angeles Times as a deputy Op-Ed editor. He was most recently at Bloomberg and The New York Times as an opinion and news editor. more

Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker who was known for her piercing judgments, her novel-like nonfiction and a provocative moral certainty that cast a cold eye on journalism and its practitioners, died on Wednesday in a hospital in Manhattan. She was 86. more

Laura Trujillo, a former editor at the USA TODAY Network’s Cincinnati Enquirer and Arizona Republic, has been named managing editor of Life and Entertainment at USA TODAY. more

Matt Clary, a longtime member of the newsroom staff, has been named the next editor of the Valley News in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Publisher Dan McClory announced the news in a memo to employees on Tuesday. more

David Dennis Jr., a freelance journalist, educator and commentator based in Atlanta, Ga., has joined The Undefeated full-time as a senior writer covering music for the culture vertical of the ESPN multimedia content initiative on sports, race and culture. A frequent contributor to The Undefeated, Dennis will also write long- and short-form pieces on other topics at the intersection of race, culture and sports. more

Graduating cum laude from the University of South Carolina in May, Samantha Winn, 22, was looking for a job in a small tight-knit community to start off her career in journalism. She set her eyes on Aiken and made the move from Columbia with just an air mattress and clothes in tow. She will cover the city of North Augusta. more

Alexandra Koch has joined the Aiken Standard newsroom as a crime and courts reporter. Koch lived outside of Chicago for most of her life and moved to Wilmington, N.C., during her high school years. Koch interned at the Wilmington Star News while still in high school and served as the yearbook editor-in-chief during her senior year. more

Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, will join the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism beginning this fall as the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism, Dean Lucy A. Dalglish announced Friday. more

The Committee to Protect Journalists has announced that Executive Director Joel Simon has informed the board of directors that he will step down by the end of the year after almost a quarter century at the organization, including 15 years in his current role. more

Guardian Media Group today announces that chief executive Annette Thomas, who joined the group in March 2020, has decided to leave the company at the end of June. more

Danielle Echeverria has joined The Chronicle as a reporter on its Engagement and Breaking News team. more

The Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette newsroom is going through significant changes. With the recent retirement of Regional Editor Sid Schwartz and the departure of Managing Editor Ann Fiore, Joel Patenaude has joined the staff as managing editor. more

otto (formerly DEVCON Detect Inc.), a B2B security software start-up innovating JavaScript vulnerability testing, monitoring and protection, has tapped Deborah Dreyfuss-Tuchman to lead the launch of its enterprise solution, ottoBox. more

Lance Turner, currently the online editor for Arkansas Business Publishing Group, will succeed Gwen Moritz as editor of Arkansas Business, the weekly statewide business journal, ABPG President Mitch Bettis announced Monday. more

The Creston Valley Advance of British Columbia, Canada, has hired a new publisher/sales manager. In his new role, Norman Eady most looks forward to meeting folks in the community and learning the nuts and bolts of a modern media business. more

The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation recently announced the addition of Matthew Sauer as its new collaboration and impact officer. Sauer spent 28 years at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, eventually overseeing 20 newsrooms and 400 journalists in Florida as regional editor for the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett. more

Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann announced his appointment of Bill Jacobs, formerly the publisher of the Brookhaven Daily Leader and the Prentiss Headlight, to the Mississippi State Board of Education on Tuesday. more

Adams Publishing Group has named Randy Rickman regional president for APG Media of Southern Minnesota. Rickman previously served as APG’s regional president for northern Wisconsin and publisher of the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram. more

John Celestino, an accomplished newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the North of Boston Media Group of eight newspapers, effective immediately. more