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...

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....

Gareth Henderson

Gareth Henderson has been appointed editor of The Vermont Standard of Woodstock. Henderson began his career with the Vermont Standard as a freelancer while...

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...

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...

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.

Sean Burke, Doris Picardi, Adam Feuerstein, Mark Elliott

MASSACHUSETTS Sean Burke, former president and group publisher of GateHouse Media New England, the largest newspaper chain in New England, with more than 100 newspapers...

Transitions

RHODE ISLAND Kathy Enders has been named advertising director for Sun Media Group, part of the Record-Journal Co. of Meriden, which publishes The Westerly Sun....

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...

Ebony Reed

Ebony Reed is leaving as executive advertising director at the Boston Business Journal to become director of innovation at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism...