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Kevin Merida has been named executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, succeeding Norman Pearlstine, who stepped down in December. Since 2015, Merida was editorin-chief of The Undefeated, a sports and pop culture website owned and operated by ESPN. During his tenure at ESPN,

Merida also oversaw the sports company’s investigative/news enterprise unit, the TV shows “E:60” and “Outside the Lines,” and was chairman of ESPN’S editorial board. Merida also spent three decades in traditional newsrooms, including 22 years at The Washington Post, where he rose to managing editor in charge of news, features, and the universal news desk.

Sally Buzbee has been named executive editor and vice president of The Washington Post, succeeding Martin Baron who has retired. Buzbee most recently served as senior vice president and executive editor for the Associated Press. She has served as AP’S executive editor since January 2017, overseeing news operations and content in all formats from AP journalists based in nearly 250 locations in 100 countries. The search for Buzbee’s replacement is expected to take a few months. Until a selection is made, the executive editor duties will be shared. AP vice president and managing editor Brian Carovillano will lead AP’S news report, while AP vice president and managing editor for operations David Scott will handle news operations.

The Associated Press has appointed Tom Januszewski as vice president of global business development. He will be responsible for driving revenue growth, building out content and service lines, introducing new revenue channels, and leading a team focused on new markets. Since joining the AP in 2000, Januszewski has held several business development positions, most recently serving as vice president for partnerships. In that role, he managed AP’S relationships with technology companies and social media platforms such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook. Joel Patenaude has been named managing editor for the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette.

He most recently worked for Madison Magazine as associate editor. In the past, Patenaude has worked as managing editor of Silent Sports Magazine and The Mille Lacs Messenger in central Minnesota, where he served as managing editor, reporter, columnist, and assistant page designer. He has also worked for The Daily Camera in Boulder, Colo., Beacon-news in Aurora, Ill., and The Telegraph Herald in Dubuque, Iowa.

Kendra Nichols has been named Seoul hub editor for The Washington Post. For the past seven years, Nichols was the Local Living editor.

She joined the Post as a multiplatform editor in 2005 and devoted a good portion of her copy editing skills to the continuous news desk. She moved to Local Living in 2012.

John R. “Jack” Selby has joined the board of directors for Wick Communications. Selby is managing director at Thiel Capital, an investment firm in Los Angeles, and he was an original employee with Paypal, where he became a corporate officer/senior vice president, overseeing the company’s international and corporate operations. Selby is involved with several companies as a technology investor and adviser, including Spacex, Palantir, Affirm, Blend, Bird, and Openspace.

Adams Publishing Group has named Clint Wolf editor of the Beloit (Wis.) Daily News. He succeeds Sid Schwartz, who retired in April.

Wolf ’s first job out of college was as editor of the Mount Morris Times, a weekly newspaper in Ogle County, Ill. After that, he worked as a reporter and editor at the Pekin Daily Times, Bureau County Republican, Dixon Telegraph and Streator Times Press (all in Illinois) and the Mohave Daily Miner in Kingman, Ariz. In 1990, he became the Associated Press wire editor at the Beloit Daily News. He was promoted to the position of news editor in 1999.

Katerina Ang has joined The Washington Post as a breaking-news editor at their Seoul hub. Ang has broad experience as a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast, and other organizations in Asia, the United States and Europe. For the past year, she was based in Singapore, consulting for a major news organization about a personal finance brand, and covering culture, politics, and economics in East Asia as a freelancer for Dow Jones, Nikkei Asia, and others, including the Post.

The International News Media Association (INMA) has elected 10 new executives to its governing board of directors. Stephen Dunbar-johnson, president, international, of The New York Times Co., was elected as second vice president of the board’s executive committee. Executives elected to new board terms or recently appointed to the board include: Alexandra Beverfjord, editor-inchief and CEO, Dagbladet (Aller Media), Norway; P.J. Browning, president newspaper

division, Evening Post Publishing, United States; Lotta Edling, editorial director, Bonnier News, Sweden; Chris Janz, chief digital and publishing officer, Nine, Australia; Mapula Nkosi, editor-in-chief, Daily Sun (Media 24), South Africa; Martha Ortiz, chief editor, El Colombiano, Colombia; Sivakumar Sundaram, chairman of the executive committee, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd. (BCCL), India; Siv Juvik Tveitnes, executive vice president of news media, Schibsted, Norway; and Gert Ysebaert, CEO, Mediahuis, Belgium.

Paxton Media Group has named Mark Elliott publisher of the Van Buren County (Ark.) Democrat. In addition to his role as publisher for the Democrat, Elliott will oversee Paxton Media Group’s newspapers in Russellville, Batesville, Searcy, Heber Springs, and Conway. Elliott previously served as publisher and general manager of Paxton Media Group’s The Daily Star in Louisiana.

Doug Mcavoy has been appointed publisher of The Goshen (Ind.) News. Mcavoy has an extensive newspaper management background, including general manager, publisher and director of digital media, marketing, and circulation with various media companies. Most recently, he served as regional director of audience development for Adams Publishing Group in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania.

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated has named Alexa Wilson vice president of brand and strategic marketing for the company. In this newly created role, Wilson will develop strategies to drive readership and subscriptions, engagement, and consumer awareness for the company’s portfolio of branded local digital and print products. Wilson is the owner and founding partner of

AWE Marketing Advisory, LLC. Previously, Wilson was vice president of consumer marketing for Nbcuniversal, where she was responsible for marketing and communication strategies for all NBCU’S TV Everywhere initiatives. Her career also includes executive director of marketing positions with Hearst. Earlier in her career, Wilson held numerous leadership roles with Time, Inc.

Versha Sharma has been named editorin-chief of Teen Vogue. Most recently, Sharma served as a managing editor, in charge of news and cultural coverage, at news website Nowthis. She is on the board of the Online News Association and previously worked for MSNBC.COM; Talkingpointsmemo, a political news and opinion website; and Vocativ, an American media and technology company.

Metro Corp Publishing has named Kirk

Davis as president and CEO. Davis formerly served as CEO of Gatehouse Media and is also a non-executive director of the Associated Press. He worked for Gatehouse Media for 13 years, and was named New England president in 2006, parent company president in 2009, and served as chief executive officer from 2014 through 2019.

The Washington Post has named Christine Armario a deputy editor for the general assignment news desk. She joins the Post from the Miami Herald, where she was the Latin America and Caribbean editor. Before that, she spent 12 years with the Associated Press, serving as a correspondent and news editor in Bogota; a breaking-news supervisor and education reporter in Los Angeles; and as a reporter in Miami and Tampa. She also spent more than three years with Newsday as a New York City crime beat reporter.

Vox Media has named Jennifer Cullem head of product. She will help to create alignment across the full product portfolio and facilitate cross-team collaboration across 13 owned and operated editorial networks, consumer revenue including subscriptions and ecommerce, programmatic, and the concert business. Cullem is a product leader with nearly 20 years of experience across multiple industries. She joins Vox Media from Spotify, where for the past three years, she worked on the artist and music industry side of the business, launching various products for industry partners.

Bridget Leroy has joined Dan’s Papers as managing editor. After working at The East Hampton (N.Y.) Star, Leroy co-founded The East Hampton Independent in 1993 (now The Independent Newspaper) and serve as the arts editor and company president for the first seven years. She moved to

New Hampshire in 2001. After moving back to the East End in 2010 and working again at The East Hampton Star, then at

The Southampton Press and the national Buddhist World Tribune for several years, she returned to The Independent in 2016 as managing editor. Most recently, Leroy cohosted a weekly radio show, “Sundays on the East End,” on 88.3 WLIW FM, Long Island’s only NPR station.

Teshia Morris, deputy weekend editor and a night editor for The New York Times, has been promoted to Sunday editor in Washington. Morris started at the Times in 2011 and spent her first six years on the metro copy desk. From there, she joined the short-lived Live copy desk and then the Print Hub. Before joining the Times, she mainly edited sports copy, including at The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun.

Inkoo Kang has joined The Washington Post as TV critic. She will write reviews, critic’s notebooks, and other stories that guide readers. Kang joins the Post from The Hollywood Reporter, where she worked for 17 months. Before that, Kang was a staff writer at Slate, where she covered the TV and film industries. She was previously the television critic at MTV News and the Village Voice, and a freelance film critic for the Los Angeles Times and The Wrap.

Madeline Westberg, associate editor of the Cambridge News & Deerfield Independent, has been promoted to managing editor of a sister Adams Publishing Group-southern Wisconsin newspaper in Dane County. She succeeds Jacob Swanson as managing editor of the Herald Independent & Thistle. Westberg has been associated editor of the Cambridge News & Deerfield Independent since 2018.

Steve Stewart, publisher of The State Journal in Frankfort, Ky., has announced he will step down from his position. He will maintain his ownership interest and continue as president of Frankfort Newsmedia LLC, which publishes the State Journal. Before leaving the company, Stewart announced several promotions. Chanda Veno was promoted from managing editor to editor, with full responsibility for news and opinion content in print and online. In addition to the State Journal, she worked at newspapers in Anderson and Owen counties in Kentucky, Ashland, Ohio, and Cumberland, Md. Meri Latek was promoted to advertising director with responsibility for the newspaper’s service to area businesses with effective digital and print marketing solutions. Veteran

State Journal staff member Sheri Bunker is director of customer service, with an emphasis on subscriber relations. Austin Horn, who joined the newsroom staff as a reporter in 2020, was promoted to director of investigative and depth reporting.

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