Ian Kirkwood has been named publisher of the Eastern Arizona Courier and the Copper Era in Safford, succeeding Belinda Mills. more

Until a new executive director is named, API’s deputy executive director and executive vice president, Jeff Sonderman, and executive vice president and chief of news transformation, Amy Kovac-Ashley, will serve as co-acting leads for the organization. more

Group lead editor Madeline Westberg is taking the role of managing editor of The Waterloo/Marshall Courier (Lake Mills, Wisconsin). more

Wick Communications veteran Ken Harty has been named publisher of The Daily Iberian in New Iberia, Louisiana. He succeeds Michael Messerly.  more

Cox Enterprises has announced that Amber Hall has been named its chief compliance and privacy officer. In this new role, Hall will oversee the Compliance and Privacy team as part of the Cox Law and Policy Center of Excellence. This new team better positions Cox to scale support as business needs expand, standardize compliance and privacy strategies, and align tools, processes and programs. more

White House reporter Zeke Miller has been named White House correspondent for The Associated Press. more

The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times welcomed two new reporters last week who are bringing life and politics to the Shreveport-Bossier area. more

In her new role, Roxanna Scott will work closely with sports editors across the country on coverage plans, recruiting and staff development. more

Charlie Callari has been named general manager of Bainbridge Newsmedia, LLC, publisher of The Post-Searchlight (Bainbridge, Georgia), Bainbridge Living, and its affiliated publications and websites. He succeeds Mark Pope, who remains at his request in his former position of managing printing and production for The Post-Searchlight, and the affiliated and non-affiliated publications the newspaper prints. more

Column is excited to welcome Bill Barker as its latest adviser. He has led a storied career in the news industry, most recently serving as the regional president of Gannett in Florida as well as the president and publisher of the Naples Daily News and The News-Press. more

Hong Cheng, dean and professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, will be the dean of the College of Arts and Media at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Cheng will begin his duties at SIU on July 1. more

Mike Smith has joined Frequence as vice president of sales. Smith will be responsible for driving business development and industry-wide adoption of Frequence’s best-in-class technology platform. more

The Bartlesville (Oklahoma) Examiner-Enterprise has reached the end of an era. Mike Tupa, sports editor of nearly 30 years, has retired. more

Linnie Pride is taking on the role of distribution and audience development director for the Ohio Division of Adams Publishing Group. more

Steve Henson, who has served as editor of The Pueblo (Colorado) Chieftain since June 2018, and Karen Vigil, a reporter and member of the paper's editorial board, retired Monday, Nov. 30. more

Former circulation manager for The Sand Mountain Reporter, Jonathan Bottomlee, has jumped back into sales, taking the lead as advertising director. more

The Ogden Newspapers has named Andy Flynn as editor and publisher of Adirondack Publishing’s two newspapers, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Saranac Lake, New York) and Lake Placid News. more

America’s Newspapers, the newly launched and largest newspaper association of its kind, announced Dean Ridings will be its chief executive officer, effective Nov. 11. more

The Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal has promoted Jeri Young, a 20-year veteran with the newspaper, to managing editor. more

The New York Times Company announced today that it is naming Jason Sobel as chief technology officer. Sobel, 40, will report directly to president and chief executive officer Meredith Kopit Levien. He will lead its technology department when he joins The Times on August 23. more