Clarice Touhey has been named publisher of the Williston Herald and Sidney Herald in Montana for Wick Communications. She is joining Wick Communications from Hearst Community Newspapers in Texas where she served as the group publisher for six community publications.

Mark Greatrex will become president of Cox Communications Inc. following the Dec. 31 retirement of President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick J. Esser. In his current role as executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, Greatrex has been responsible for leading the company’s residential sales team and marketing activities.

Scott Gaines has been named publisher of The Daily News in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Pipes Gaines has transitioned to publisher emeritus. Scott Gaines, who has served as copublisher with his father since 2013, previously held the titles of business manager and general manager during his Daily News career. Scott Gaines and his brother, Daily News Editor Steve Gaines, are the fifth generation of the family’s newspaper ownership.

Emily Walsh has been named president of the Observer Media Group, a familyowned and operated multimedia company. In her new role, she will continue a multigenerational lineage at the helm of the Florida media company. In addition, Kat Hughes has been promoted to chief operating officer and will continue to serve as executive editor of the Sarasota-area Observers.

Tampa Bay Newspapers Associate Publisher Jay Rey has been named publisher for the organization, which includes publications in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties. He succeeds retiring TBN Publisher Dan Autrey. Rey has risen through the ranks during his tenure with the company, serving as general manager of the Suncoast News, which was acquired by TBN in 2016. He was named associate publisher in 2019.

The Maine Monitor has a new editor and executive director: Eric Conrad, a veteran Maine journalist and communications professional. Conrad succeeds Dan Dinsmore, who served in the same capacities for the past three and a half years, during which time the Monitor took on a new name and brand, added staff and accelerated the non-profit media organization’s outreach to individual donors, national foundations and grant providers.

Digital news leader Jim Brady has joined the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as vice president/ journalism. Heidi Barker, a former NBC Network News producer turned corporate communications executive, is Knight’s new vice president/ communications and chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. Brady is CEO of Spirited Media, which developed local news sites Billy Penn in Philadelphia, The Incline in Pittsburgh and Denverite in Denver, and sold them in 2019. Barker brings to Knight 30 years of experience as a senior corporate communications executive and broadcast journalist. A champion of diversity, equity and inclusion, she has advised executives and collaborated on organizational DEI initiatives.

Sewell Chan, the current editorial page editor and former deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be The Texas Tribune’s next editorin-chief, effective Oct. 18. Prior to his stint on the West Coast these last three years, Chan spent 14 years at The New York Times — most recently as international news editor, and before that as deputy op-ed editor, Washington correspondent, and metro reporter and bureau chief. He began his career as a local news reporter at The Washington Post.

Shani Hilton has been appointed to the newly-created role of managing editor for new initiatives at the Los Angeles Times. She will be responsible for driving the L.A. Times’ efforts to expand its journalism and to foster a newsroom culture of aggressive, organic experimentation with form and approach. Since coming to the paper as a deputy managing editor in 2019, Hilton has worked with staffs across the newsroom to focus The Times’ coverage through a California lens. Hilton previously served as vice president of news and programming with Buzzfeed News.

Katherine Boo, Washington, D.c.based author and journalist, Gail Collins, opinion columnist for The New York Times, and John Daniszewski, vice president and editor-at-large for standards for The Associated Press, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board. The trio succeeds Propublica Editorin-chief Stephen Engelberg and Simon & Schuster Vice President and Executive Editor Mindy Marqués González, who shared the post during 2020-2021.

Katrice Hardy has been named executive editor of The Dallas Morning News. Hardy becomes the first female and African American to hold this position, which continues her legacy of breaking both color and gender barriers, which she has done throughout her distinguished career. She most recently served as executive editor of The Indianapolis Star and the regional editor for the Midwest of the USA TODAY Network.

Maria Reeve, managing editor of the Houston Chronicle, has been named executive editor. She will be the first journalist of color to lead the Houston

Chronicle newsroom. Prior to joining the newspaper, she was an assistant managing editor of news at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Reeve fills the role vacated by Steve Riley, who announced in March that he will be retiring later this year.

Robyn Tomlin, the top editor at The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) and the Durham Heraldsun, has been named as Mcclatchy’s vice president for local news, supporting the company’s newsrooms in small and mediumsized markets, including the Triangle. Tomlin came to Mcclatchy from The Dallas Morning News in 2018 to become the company’s first regional editor for the Carolinas. From her base at the N&O, she has supervised newsrooms in Charlotte and at five news organizations the company owns in South Carolina.

Noah Shachtman has been named editor in chief of Rolling Stone. He most recently served as the top editor of The Daily Beast. Shachtman succeeds Jason Fine, who stepped down in February after five and a half years as the top editor to take a job overseeing Rolling Stone’s podcasts, documentaries and other media ventures.

The New York Times Company has named Jason Sobel as chief technology officer. Previously Sobel served as head of infrastructure for Airbnb from April 2019 until March 2021. He also has served as Airbnb’s engineering director and global head of trust and safety operations. In the past, Sobel was vice president of engineering at Quantifind. Prior to that, he spent six years at Facebook, where he worked on its backend platform to help steer the company through a massive growth phase.

Sam Fisher has retired as president and CEO of the Illinois Press Association. He had been the organization’s leader since 2017.

Donald M. Craven, longtime legal adviser to IPA’S membership, has succeeded Fisher. Craven has provided legal counsel to members of the IPA and Illinois Press Foundation for nearly four decades. He was interim president and CEO of IPA from 2009 to 2010, and again in 2017 until Fisher was named to the position.

Paul Cheung has been named chief executive officer of the Center for Public Integrity. Cheung joins the Center for Public Integrity from the Knight Foundation, where for the past three years, he served as the director of journalism and technology innovation. Previously, he led cross functional teams of journalists, technologists, datascientists and interactive producers at NBC, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal and Miami Herald.

After 32 years of guiding Community Newspapers Inc., co-owners Tom Wood and Dink Nesmith are turning over the corporate leadership to new cochief executive officers. Longtime Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Mark Major has replaced Nesmith as president. At the same time, Alan Nesmith, a vice president and CNI regional publisher, was named chairman of the board, succeeding Wood.

Nikole Hannah-jones and Howard alumnus Ta-nehisi Coates have joined the Howard University faculty. Hannah-jones will be a tenured member of the faculty of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications, filling the newly created Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Coates, journalist and author, will

be a faculty member in the flagship College of Arts and Sciences. Hannahjones also will found the Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will focus on training and supporting aspiring journalists in acquiring the investigative skills and historical and analytical expertise needed to cover the crisis our democracy is facing.

Karen Tumulty has been named deputy editorial page editor of The Washington Post. In her new role, she will continue to do some writing as she helps oversee the work of the newspaper’s editorial board. Tumulty came to The Post 11 years ago and joined Opinions as a political columnist in 2018. Before that, she spent 15 years at Time, ending as national political correspondent after covering Congress and the White House.

Jack Robb, a veteran newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of The Valdosta Daily Times. Robb has worked closely with the newspaper’s staff for the past year in an advisory role for CNHI, LLC, the paper’s parent company. He will be assisted by Laurie Gay, who has been promoted to general manager-advertising director. She also serves as general manager-ad director at The Moultrie Observer and The Tifton Gazette.

Jennifer Orsi is joining the USA TODAY Network as executive editor of the Sarasota Heraldtribune and Florida regional editor, overseeing 18 Gannettowned daily newspapers in the state. Orsi spent three decades at the Tampa Bay Times, starting as a reporter in the Brandon bureau and rising to become the first woman appointed the newspaper’s sole managing editor. Since 2018, Orsi has been the director of marketing content and communications for an asset management company.

Heidi Gebhardt, veteran Meadville Tribune advertising executive, has been promoted to general manager. Gebhardt joined the newspaper in 2009 as an advertising representative. In 2011, she was promoted to advertising director. She will continue her responsibilities as advertising director in her expanded management role.

Kevin Graeler has been named managing editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune, removing the interim tag he held since January. Arriving at the Tribune in 2018, Graeler first served as night and weekend editor before becoming sports editor in June 2019. In the past, Graeler spent more than two years as sports editor at the Hannibal Courier-post.

Jamil Anderlini has been named POLITICO Europe’s new editor-inchief. He joins POLITICO Europe from the Financial Times where he oversaw editorial coverage and strategy throughout Asia. Anderlini takes over the top editorial role from John Harris, POLITICO’S founding editor and chairman of POLITICO Europe’s editorial advisory board, who has been acting in the position since the sudden death of the previous editor-in-chief, Stephen Brown, in March.

Bill Green has been named editor of The Daily News in Longview, Washington. Green most recently served as community publications editor of three Florida publications: the Marco Eagle in Marco Island, The Banner in Bonita Springs and the News Star in Lehigh Acres. Green also previously served as editor of Miami Monthly and was an adjunct faculty member at Florida Atlantic University. Green succeeds Todd Krysiak, who will return to his role as production editor at the Lee Enterprises Design Center after spending four months in the temporary role.

Beth Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers during the group’s 98th annual summer conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Others elected to leadership positions during the NAM conference were Vice President Laurie Hieb, executive director of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, and Secretary Mark Maassen, executive director of the Missouri Press Association.

Phil Lucey, executive director of the North Carolina Press Association, was elected to serve a three-year term on the NAM board. Continuing directors are Brian Allfrey, executive director of the Utah Press Association, and Susan Patterson Plank, executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association. Saskatchewan Weekly Newspapers Association Executive Director Steve Nixon becomes immediate past president. Layne Bruce, executive director of the Mississippi Press Association, serves as the organization’s clerk.