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...

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...

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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....

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,...

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...

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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.

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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...

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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...