Effective Feb. 8, Tupelo native and former executive editor of the Clarion Ledger, Sam R. Hall, will lead the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal’s newsroom, publisher William Bronson announced Monday.
Hall succeeds replaces Elizabeth Walters as the Daily Journal’s executive editor. Walters left in January.
Hall has more than 20 years’ experience in journalism and communications, including eight years at the Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, where he was executive editor for five years.
“The Daily Journal has a great legacy of top-notch local journalism, and I’m thrilled to come home and be a part of that,” Hall said. “We have a good staff who is already doing excellent work, so I’m coming into a really great place.”
