Reggie Ponder has been named editor of The Wake Weekly and The Butner-Creedmoor News.
Ponder, 60, began his work at the newspapers on Nov. 13.
He has worked at community newspapers in eastern North Carolina for 27 years, most recently as a staff writer for The Daily Advance in Elizabeth City and the Perquimans Weekly in Hertford.
Ponder was editor of the Chowan Herald in Edenton from 2013-17 and has worked at The Franklin Times, Henderson Daily Dispatch, The Enterprise in Spring Hope and the Wayne-Wilson News Leader in Fremont.
