Vermont News and Media LLC to acquire Brattleboro Reformer, Bennington Banner, Manchester Journal

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Fredric Rutberg, president of New England Newspapers Inc., announced on May 4 that it is selling its Vermont publications...

The Boston Globe names NPR news chief Nancy Barnes as its next editor

The Boston Globe announced on November 14 that Nancy Barnes would be its next editor, tapping a deeply experienced journalist who has run major metropolitan...

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...

Dave Daley – Bruce Putterman

Bruce Putterman has been appointed chief executive officer and publisher as of April 10 of The Connecticut News Project, a nonprofit organization that publishes...

Transitions

CONNECTICUT Jeff Otterbein has retired as sports editor of The Hartford Courant after 27 years. Dan Brechlin has been named to replace Otterbein as sports...

Celestino appointed North of Boston publisher

John Celestino, an accomplished newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the North of Boston Media Group of eight newspapers, effective immediately.

Transitions

MAINE Joseph Charpentier is joining the Boothbay Register of Boothbay Harbor as a full-time reporter. He replaces Morgan Callan Rogers, who now will be a...

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...

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...

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....