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There’s a new leadership team at the Detroit Lakes Tribune in Minnesota, with Publisher Devlyn Brooks and Managing Editor Tris Anderson now at the helm. Brooks brings a wealth of news and business experience to his role as publisher of Forum Communications newspapers in Detroit Lakes, Perham and Wadena. For the last four years he has been president of Forum Communications’ Modulist, a media services company that processes paid user content for newspapers and other media. Anderson is managing editor of both the Detroit Lakes Tribune and the Perham Focus. He worked at newspapers in North Dakota and South Dakota before joining Forum Communications in Detroit Lakes.

John Miller, one of the nation’s top Intel experts, has joined CNN as chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst. Miller, who most recently served as deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the NYPD, will add his unique perspective as a seasoned journalist and decorated law enforcement official to the network’s coverage of crime and terrorism. In addition to his various roles in public service, Miller has served as a correspondent for both CBS News and ABC News, and is the former co-anchor of ABC’S “20/20.”

Kendra Lee has joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as its vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion. Lee will support DEI efforts across all aspects of the organization, including the newsroom, and will serve in an instrumental role in community outreach. Most recently, Lee served as Comcast’s senior director of inclusive leadership development.

Vincent Queau has joined Monadnock Paper Mills as senior sales representative. Queau has more than 17 years of experience in paper and print with a strong background in the graphic arts and digital printing. Most recently, he was regional sales manager for Sihl, Inc., Fiskeville, Rhode Island, where he developed and managed distribution strategies across Canada and the midwestern United States.

After a decade covering Oceana County and White Lake area sports, staff writer

Andy Roberts has been named editor of the White Lake Beacon in Michigan.

A Dana Point-based reporter has been tapped as the managing editor of The Laguna Beach (California) Independent. For more than a decade, Clara Beard has worked in print and online media specializing in sports journalism.

Elizabeth Barrett has begun a new role as senior vice president, production and operations, ABC News. Previously, she was the finance lead for ABC News on the DMED team. In this new role, Barrett will oversee the news division’s production and operations functions and lead strategic direction while developing and spearheading initiatives that operationalize content strategies across ABC News.

Graham Media Group, the local media division of Graham Holdings Company, has announced that Phil Lane has been named vice president and general manager of KPRC, the NBC broadcast affiliate television station in Houston, Texas. Lane succeeds Jerry Martin, who recently retired after 11 years at the helm of KPRC.

Seni Tienabeso has been promoted to executive director of ABC News Live. In this new role, he will oversee day-to-day editorial direction for the channel and focus on developing its original live programming, live events and specials. Tienabeso first joined ABC

News Live in 2019 as executive producer of primetime, where he launched “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis.” He has also played a critical role shaping ABC News Live political and special events coverage and specials.

The Marshall Project has hired Louis Fields as its Cleveland outreach manager. In this new role, Fields will be an essential part of the organization’s Cleveland operation, working closely with its engagement reporting team to increase distribution of the organization’s journalism in Ohio’s prisons and jails, and to reach the Greater Cleveland community. Fields is the founder and creator of a sports show centered around recreational issues within the Ohio Department of Corrections. He also launched “Builders: Rebuilding Families and Communities as We Rebuild Ourselves,” a restorative justice program focused on community mindsets.

The Associated Press has announced key members of its team covering politics, democracy and elections:

Steve Peoples, based in New York, will continue as AP’S chief political writer with a focus on the biggest political trends, voter behavior and major statewide campaigns; Bill

Barrow, based in Atlanta, will cover politics in Georgia, a state that is on the frontlines of some of the biggest political stories; Tom Beaumont, based in Des Moines, will cover politics in Iowa and the Midwest, with a focus on House campaigns and the onset of the 2024 caucuses; Sara

Burnett, based in Chicago, will cover

governors’ races and the intersection of gender and politics; Christina

A. Cassidy, based in Atlanta, will cover how elections are administered throughout the U.S.; Jill Colvin, based in New York, will cover former President Donald Trump and the GOP;

Jonathan J. Cooper, based in Phoenix, will cover the rapidly changing politics of Arizona and the southwest; Gary

Fields, based in Washington, will cover challenges to democracy with a focus on marginalized and disaffected people; Adriana Gomez Licon, based in Miami, will cover the political influence of Latino voters; Meg

Kinnard, based in Columbia, South Carolina, will cover breaking news, the South and the 2024 Republican presidential primary; Michelle Price, based in New York, will focus on the political players in the nation’s largest metropolis; Nick Riccardi, based in Denver, will cover emerging threats to democracy, including new rules and tactics that make it harder to vote;

Brian Slodysko, based in Washington, will cover influence, money and politics; and Will Weissert, based in Washington, will cover Democratic politics, including efforts to maintain Congress and the emerging 2024 campaign. Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Steven Sloan, Democracy

News Editor Tom Verdin and Deputy Political Editor Ashley Thomas are leading this expanded team and AP’S overall coverage of politics, elections and democracy in the U.S.

Jim Iovino has joined The E.W. Scripps Company to lead the new Google-backed Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative. The multi-year initiative is designed to transition experienced journalists with primarily print news backgrounds into videodriven news careers. Google has made a financial commitment to Scripps to underwrite the newly created program. Iovino has more than 25 years of experience as a print and multimedia journalist. He served most recently as visiting assistant professor of media innovation at West Virginia University.

Legacy.com, Inc. has announced the appointment of Alan

Press as its new CEO. He has served for the last four years as Legacy’s COO and president. Press succeeds Stopher

Bartol, who founded the company in 1998 and will continue to serve the company as executive chairman.

Award-winning journalist Deepa

Fernandes is joining NPR and WBUR’S “Here & Now,” the live midday news program distributed nationwide, as the show’s third host. On Oct. 10, she will make her debut alongside Robin Young and Scott Tong. She joins “Here & Now” from the San Francisco Chronicle where she was an immigration correspondent and senior newsroom adviser on race and equity.

The College of Communication and Information at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has welcomed 12 new faculty members to its ranks this fall. From the Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations: Assistant Professor Minjie Li and Assistant Professor of Practice

William Nowling. From the School of Communication Studies: Director and Professor Jon Hess, Assistant Professor Roth Smith, Assistant Professor Jessica Frampton, Lecturer Tayler

Wahl, Assistant Professor of Practice Joe Lybarger, Lecturer Marieke

Keller, Lecturer Leslie Deatrick and

Lecturer Kelly Phillips. From the School of Journalism and Electronic Media: Assistant Professor of Practice

Tatia Jacobson Jordan. From the School of Information Sciences: Assistant Professor Rebecca D. Frank.

The School of Media and Journalism at Kent State has welcomed two new fulltime faculty members for the 2022-23 academic year in the areas of media diversity and studies, and multimedia/ video production and documentaries.

Tara Conley, ED.D., and Kathryn Cooper, PH.D., are joining the faculty as assistant professors. Conley will teach Media, Power and Culture and Managing Media Diversity, and Cooper will teach Digital Video Editing and Production II.

Luke Capizzo has joined the Missouri School of Journalism’s strategic communication faculty as an assistant professor, capping a journey from the industry side of public relations to the world of research and teaching.

Former Shelbyville (Kentucky) Sentinel

News Editor James

Mulcahy is back at the helm and is also heading The Anderson News in Lawrenceburg. Mulcahy worked as Sentinel-news editor from 2001 to 2006.

The Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame has inducted eight outstanding journalists. The Hall of Fame Class of 2022 includes J. Scott Applewhite of The Associated Press, Jerry Brewer of The Washington Post, the late Melissa Forsythe of WHAS-TV, the late John B. Gaines of the Bowling Green Daily News, the late Bill Mardis of the

Somerset’s Commonwealth Journal, Mark Maynard of Kentucky Today, writing coach and retired editor Stuart Warner and Deborah Yetter of The Courier-journal.

Jeffrey Fleishman, who has skillfully led the Los Angeles Times’ Foreign and National teams through more than two years of global wars and domestic strife, has returned to writing, capturing the cultural cross-currents in America.

Alan Zarembo, a gifted editor on Fleishman’s team and a former foreign correspondent, was named as the new Foreign/national editor of The Times.

The Guardian’s parent company has appointed Anna Bateson as its new chief executive. Bateson previously spent four years at Guardian Media Group, where she helped develop the company’s voluntary contributions strategy which has seen millions of readers contribute toward the cost of running the news organization without it installing a paywall.

CNBC has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Lillian Rizzo to cover media and sports. She had been a reporter in The Journal’s media and marketing bureau in New York. She reported about companies in the cable, streaming and sports media industry, including Comcast, Paramount Global and Sinclair Broadcast.

Destiny Cook has been named a junior social media producer at The Atlanta Journalconstitution. In her new role, Cook will be responsible for assisting with daily programming across social platforms, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. “Destiny was an outstanding intern and we are thrilled to welcome her to our team in a full-time capacity,” said Angel K. Brooks, senior editor for digital audience and engagement.

As Newsnation continues to expand its news production operations in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C., Vice President of News and Managing Editor Cherie Grzech announced that Jake Novak has joined the cable news network as deputy managing editor, Ali Bradley has joined as a Southwest correspondent, and Hayley Turner has been named senior producer for “On Balance with Leland Vittert.”

Idrees Kahloon, a Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been named its Washington bureau chief. He has been a Washington correspondent since January 2021. He previously was a policy correspondent covering domestic politics and policy.

Gabriel San Román has joined the Metro staff at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering Orange County. San Román has been a prominent voice in Orange County media for the last decade. At The Times, he’ll work with Hannah Fry to expand the paper’s coverage of Orange County.

The Association of Health Care Journalists has named Kelsey Ryan, the founder and publisher of a nonprofit online news network and a former health care reporter, as the organization’s executive director. Chosen after a national search, Ryan succeeds Andrew Smiley, who resigned in January.

The American Journalism Project has announced the appointment of Hilary Schneider, chief executive officer of Shutterfly, to its board of directors. In her new role, Schneider will share her expertise in business leadership, digital media and building sustainable business models with the venture philanthropy.

York Daily Record/sunday News editor Randy Parker has left the newspaper after 33 years. Parker was central Pennsylvania executive editor for the USA TODAY Network. Scott Fisher, a regional news editor for central Pennsylvania, is handling Parker’s duties on an interim basis.

Newhouse School Dean Mark J. Lodato has announced that Beverly Kirk, a seasoned professional with more than two decades of experience in journalism, has been named director of Washington Programs. In this position, Kirk will expand and lead the Newhouse School’s Washington, D.C., student programs across multiple communications majors with a primary focus on journalism. She will be based at the Center for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship, a joint initiative of the Newhouse and Maxwell schools.

Nbcuniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde announced that

KC Sullivan is the new president of CNBC and that Mark Hoffman has stepped down as chairman following a 28-year career at NBC and Nbcuniversal. Sullivan, who will report to Conde, previously was president and managing director of Global Advertising and Partnerships at Nbcuniversal, based in London.

The Appalachian News-express (Pikeville, Kentucky) has promoted Gina Ferguson to regional advertising director. Ferguson has worked for the Appalachian News-express since 2009 and has been in the advertising department since 2011.

The San Francisco Chronicle announced that Harsha Devulapalli has joined the staff as a graphics reporter. Devulapalli recently completed a graduate degree in data journalism at Columbia University. Previously, as a developer at Mint (HT Media) in India, he pitched and produced hundreds of data stories and interactive graphics.

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:

Renae Merle will be taking on a new role at The Washington Post as an editor on the America desk, where she will shepherd the paper’s coverage of race, multiculturalism and identity. She will manage a team of reporters writing about racial dynamics and the rapid social change across the country, as well as oversee About US, a twiceweekly newsletter dedicated to ongoing conversations about race and identity. She also will collaborate with the other America editors to coordinate coverage of major national news events. Merle joins the staff from Features, where she was an editor on the Style desk.

Shira Ovide joins The Washington Post as Help Desk strategy editor, a new role aimed at expanding the paper’s groundbreaking work to help people make sense of the technology in their lives. She joins the staff from The New York Times, and will help launch, write and edit a newsletter in collaboration with The Post’s fivemember Help Desk team.

Sabrina Rodriguez is joining The Washington Post to take on a new beat covering voters and the changing American electorate for the National politics team. She comes to The Post from the White House team at Politico, where she has worked since 2017 covering multiple beats.

The Washington Post’s longtime tech and data chief Shailesh Prakash will be leaving the company in November to become vice president and general manager of news at Google. In a note to Washington Post colleagues, Publisher Fred Ryan said Prakash has “reshaped how we think about product and engineering, built a world-class engineering team, and launched thriving new businesses for The Post with Arc XP and Zeus.”

The Washington Post announced that Kristen Friesen has been named head of growth for Zeus Prime, The Post’s premium ad-buying network. In this role, Friesen will be responsible for identifying and developing sales and marketing channels to drive revenue for the Zeus Prime network of publishers. Friesen has been with The Post for more than a decade.

Elyse Samuels has been named senior producer of Visual Forensics at The Washington Post. In this role, she will partner with executive producer Nadine Ajaka to lead The Post’s newly expanded team of open-source video and graphics reporters. Samuels is a founding member of The Post’s Visual Forensics team, helping to launch the team in the summer of 2020. Earlier this year, she shared in The Post’s Pulitzer Prize for her work reconstructing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Teddy Amenabar, a longtime newsroom innovator, has joined The Washington Post’s expanding personal health and wellness team as a general assignment reporter. Amenabar, who has been a newsroom talent and community editor, brings seven years of experience in The Post’s audience team and a track record for innovation that makes him uniquely suited for this role.

Mary Gail Pezzimenti has been named head of creative for The Washington Post Creative Group. In this role, she will cultivate the vision, purpose and innovation roadmap for The Post’s in-house branded content studio. Pezzimenti most recently served as vice president of content marketing at Healthline Media/red Ventures.

Alexandra Ma has joined The Washington Post as a breaking news editor in its London hub. She is part of a rapidly expanding team that covers the most urgent and interesting stories that break anywhere in the world during the European day. She previously was a senior news editor for Insider Inc., running the London bureau’s breaking news team and serving as a point person in hand-over meetings with the publication’s main newsroom in New York.

Lindsey Bever has joined the expanding personal health and wellness team at The Washington Post. For the past seven years, she has honed her health reporting skills on The Post’s busy General Assignment desk, where she has routinely covered national health news and has been an essential contributor to its coronavirus coverage.

The Washington Post has added three editors to its SEO team: Candace

Mitchell, Gwen Milder and Ashleigh

Wilson. These SEO editors will work to create strategies to reach and retain new, younger and more diverse audiences through search platforms and expand the newsroom’s best practices around SEO, recirculation and durable content.

Katharine Houreld has joined

The Washington Post as East Africa bureau chief, becoming one of three correspondents covering a continent undergoing dramatic changes even as it confronts worsening climate change and persistent unrest. For the past five years, she has been East Africa bureau chief for Reuters based in Nairobi.

Katie Zezima has joined the Climate & Environment Department at The Washington Post as editor overseeing the Science & Impact team. In this new role, which is part of a significant expansion of Climate coverage at The Post, she will lead a pod of talented journalists covering the latest in climate and environmental science and the impact of a warming planet on the lives of people across the globe. She has been with The Post since 2014.

Richard Sima,a neuroscientist turned science journalist, has joined The Washington Post’s expanding personal health and wellness team. In this role, he will develop a weekly column about the neuroscience of everyday life, focusing on behavioral health and how matters of the mind can influence both our physical and mental wellbeing.

Amanda Morris,a trailblazing reporter on the disability beat, is joining The Washington Post’s expanding personal health and wellness team. Morris is uniquely qualified to cover this important beat. She is a hardof-hearing woman who has worn hearing aids since the age of 1 and grew up using American Sign Language with her deaf parents. Before joining The Post, Morris was the inaugural disability reporting fellow at The New York Times.

Azi Paybarah has joined The Washington Post as a reporter on the National politics breaking news team. He brings a wealth of experience covering politics and breaking news. Since 2018, he has worked for The New York Times, most recently as a reporter on the Politics desk.

Eliza Dennis has joined The Washington Post as an audio producer on the Post Reports team. She developed her skills at NPR, where she has spent the past few years as a producer of “Weekend All Things Considered” and the afternoon news podcast “Consider This.”

Jessica Koscielniak has joined Video at The Washington Post as a senior producer for enterprise. In this role, she will help lead the video journalists in both breaking news and news the paper breaks. She comes to The Post from USA TODAY, where she was a senior video producer.

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:

Katie J.M. Baker has joined The New York Times as a correspondent covering the social and cultural conflicts that divide the U.S. today. Since 2017, she has been a reporter on Buzzfeed News’ investigations desk.

Allison Benedikt has joined Opinion at The New York Times in a newly formed role: editorial director. Most recently the executive editor at Slate, Benedikt will serve as a senior editor in the department, helping to direct coverage across the report, both on a day-to-day and strategic level.

Rebecca Ruiz, a veteran reporter in New York, has joined The New York Times’ London-based team. She has spent 15 years at The Times, most recently on Investigations, where she was part of the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for covering fatal police stops.

Maria Abi-habib, bureau chief, and Natalie Kitroeff, correspondent, in Mexico City, are both stepping into new roles with The New York Times. Abi-habib has been named to a newly created position: investigative correspondent with a primary focus on Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America. Kitroeff has been named as the new bureau chief in Mexico City, where she will drive news coverage in the region.

The New York Times has announced the first members of the newsroom’s Election Data Analytics team, a new group tasked with expanding election-related analytical journalism. To lead the team this election cycle,

the Business desk has let the new team borrow William Davis through November. Also on the team is Ilana Marcus, who joined The Times fulltime in May as a developer working on acquiring the data needed to power an accurate election-night model, such as real-time, precinct-level results. Irineo Cabreros joined as staff editor for statistical modeling. He comes to The Times from the RAND Corporation, where he was a statistician who supported research in a diverse range of domains. Ruth Igielnik joined the team as staff editor for news surveys. She comes from the Pew Research Center, where she was a senior researcher.