Naomi Schalit

MAINE Naomi Schalit, co-founder of the Hallowell-based Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, is retiring to pursue independent writing projects. She was the senior reporter...

Transitions

MAINE  Steve Fuller has left as city hall reporter with The Ellsworth American to begin a job as assistant to the city planner at Ellsworth...

Shaw Israel Izikson named the editor of The Country Journal

Shaw Israel Izikson was named as the editor of The Country Journal in late November. Izikson is an award-winning journalist, editor, and photographer from Baltimore,...

Heather McKernan

Heather McKernan, publisher of the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript of Peterborough, has been named the first female publisher of the Ledger-Transcript’s sister newspaper, the Concord Monitor....

Judy Meyer resigns as Sun Journal executive editor

Judy Meyer, a dedicated journalist and steadfast advocate for press freedom, is stepping down as executive editor of the Sun Journal, Kennebec Journal, and...

Dan Bolles / Jordan Adams

Dan Bolles has been named assistant arts editor of the Burlington-based Seven Days. Jordan Adams will replace Bolles as Seven Days’ music editor. Bolles...

Transitions

MAINE Earl Brechlin has left as founding editor of the Mount Desert Islander of Bar Harbor to become communications director of Friends of Acadia, an...

Stan Simpson

Stan Simpson has been named the Robert C. Vance Endowed Chair in Journalism and Mass Communications at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain...

Feb 2017 Massachusetts Transitions

Peter Meyer, regional vice president for GateHouse Media and president and publisher for the company on Cape Cod and Massachusetts’ South Coast, will take...

Alan Rosenberg, David Butler, & Michael McDermott

Alan Rosenberg, managing editor at The Providence Journal, will succeed David Butler as executive editor of the Journal when Butler retires in June. Rosenberg...