NewsPeople Chris Licht, the producer who created “Morning Joe,” revamped “CBS This Morning” and revitalized “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” has been selected to run CNN once Discovery merges with WarnerMedia this spring. The Lake Placid News and Adirondack Daily Enterprise in New York have a new publisher. Trevor Evans, 33, previously was publisher of the Gloversville (New York) LeaderHerald. Evans takes over the publisher role from Cathy Moore, of Saranac Lake, who spent 47 years at the Enterprise and the News, 31 of those years as publisher. Jeff DeLoach, president of the Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press for the past five years, has resigned as head of the Chattanooga Publishing Co. Mark Lane, president of the newspaper division of WEHCO Media, Inc., which owns the Times Free Press, is acting as the interim president of the newspaper until a replacement is named. Lane said he will split his time between Chattanooga and Little Rock, Arkansas, where WEHCO is based, until the company hires the next president for the Times Free Press. Karen Fioretti has been named publisher and editor of The McDuffie Progress in Thomson, Georgia, following the recent departure of Wayne Parham, who had served in the role for nearly 10 years. She was most recently publisher and editor of The Star-Herald in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
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Donna B. Hall, publisher of The Atlanta JournalConstitution, which is owned by Cox Enterprises, will retire at the end of April. Hall has been with the company for 35 years and was named publisher of the AJC, Dayton Daily News and Cox’s other Ohio newspapers in 2019.
Insider has tapped New York Times advertising sales veteran Maggie Milnamow as its new chief revenue officer, reporting to Insider president Barbara Peng.
33 years, he has worked with News Media Corporation, a family-owned newspaper company with daily and weekly papers, most recently as chief operating officer.
Executive Editor Maria De Varenne, The Tennessean’s tenacious longtime newsroom leader, will retire this month from journalism. De Varenne, the first female executive editor in the news outlet’s storied history, took the helm more than a decade ago and led The Tennessean’s newsroom at a time when Nashville’s unbridled growth increasingly put the city in the national spotlight.
The Dallas Morning News has named Tampa Bay Times senior editor Amy Hollyfield its new managing editor. Hollyfield succeeds Keith Campbell, who retired in December after 31 years with the daily. She will oversee day-today newsroom operations and report to Executive Editor Katrice Hardy.
Barry Winterland has retired from his role as regional finance director at Lee Enterprises, including properties in southeastern Wisconsin, and general manager of Lee’s Central and Southern Illinois and southeastern Wisconsin properties.
John X. Miller, who has served as a top editor at a number of newsrooms and most recently was a senior editor at ESPN’s Undefeated, is The Dallas Morning News’ new senior editor working with the paper’s business, features and sports teams. He joins Mede Nix as the paper’s other senior editor.
John Shank has joined D-R Media in Florida as vice president and group publisher. He will oversee the D-R Media weekly newspapers in Lake, Polk and Sumter counties. For the past
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism has reached an agreement to collaborate with the nonprofit JournalList Inc. to expand its automated system designed to elevate and monetize trusted news outlets
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