Dave Flessner, business editor of the Times Free Press, has been a fixture of the Chattanooga Times and then the Times Free Press newsrooms for almost 43 years. He retired on Monday.
Caren Bohan, USA TODAY’s executive editor for politics, was named interim editor-in-chief as the company conducts a national search for its next newsroom leader.
Kristine Goodrich is the new community editor for the Superior Telegram (Duluth, Minnesota) and Cloquet Pine Journal.
Darrell Richardson, general manager of The News-Herald, Lenoir City, is the new president of the Tennessee Press Association (TPA).
The Star Tribune Media Company, the largest news organization in the Midwest, has announced the addition of Phillip Morris to its executive staff as opinion editor and vice president. He joins the Star Tribune with more than three decades of media experience including nearly 30 years at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as a longtime editorial writer and metro columnist.
Jp Lawrence has joined the Star Tribune Media Company as its new Southwest Minnesota reporter. Lawrence joins the Star Tribune following a six-year stint overseas in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Germany where he served as a downrange reporter for Stars and Stripes.
The Star Tribune Media Company, the largest news organization in the Midwest, has announced that it has added Sean Baker as its new Southeast Minnesota reporter. Baker joins the Star Tribune after an eight-year run as publisher and lead reporter for Med City Beat, an independent news project he founded in Rochester at the age of 25.