Emmanuel Felton will join The Washington Post’s America desk as its race and ethnicity reporter. Felton comes to The Post from BuzzFeed News, where he has worked for nearly two years as an investigative reporter on the inequality desk. more

ProPublica announced today that Robin Sparkman, founding CEO of StoryCorps, has been elected by its Board of Directors as president and co-CEO of ProPublica. Her appointment, succeeding Richard Tofel, whose retirement from ProPublica was announced in February, will be effective September 8. more

Marcos Bretón, who has been a columnist at The Sacramento Bee since 2007, was announced on Monday as McClatchy’s new California opinion editor. In his new role with McClatchy, Bretón will lead The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board and work closely with opinion editors in each of the company’s California markets. more

Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl, Deputy Foreign Editor Eva Rodriguez, Director of Global Live News Josh du Lac and London hub editor Sara Sorcher today announced the latest staff additions to The Washington Post’s London news hub. This hub, in addition to another base in Seoul, will allow The Post to become a more global newsroom. Launching this summer, these operations will be staffed by reporters and editors whose primary focus will be covering live news for a worldwide audience as it unfolds in the United States and around the globe during nighttime hours in Washington. more

Jeff Robischon has been named general manager of the Ashland Daily Press in Wisconsin after a career spent in newspapers across the region and the country. Robischon also will be responsible for operations at the Price County Review and Northwood’s Shopper. more

Jeffrey Timmermans, an accomplished business journalist and educator, has been named the Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. more

Philip Gray will be joining the Opinion department at The Los Angeles Times as a deputy Op-Ed editor. He was most recently at Bloomberg and The New York Times as an opinion and news editor. more

Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker who was known for her piercing judgments, her novel-like nonfiction and a provocative moral certainty that cast a cold eye on journalism and its practitioners, died on Wednesday in a hospital in Manhattan. She was 86. more

Laura Trujillo, a former editor at the USA TODAY Network’s Cincinnati Enquirer and Arizona Republic, has been named managing editor of Life and Entertainment at USA TODAY. more

Matt Clary, a longtime member of the newsroom staff, has been named the next editor of the Valley News in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Publisher Dan McClory announced the news in a memo to employees on Tuesday. more

David Dennis Jr., a freelance journalist, educator and commentator based in Atlanta, Ga., has joined The Undefeated full-time as a senior writer covering music for the culture vertical of the ESPN multimedia content initiative on sports, race and culture. A frequent contributor to The Undefeated, Dennis will also write long- and short-form pieces on other topics at the intersection of race, culture and sports. more

Graduating cum laude from the University of South Carolina in May, Samantha Winn, 22, was looking for a job in a small tight-knit community to start off her career in journalism. She set her eyes on Aiken and made the move from Columbia with just an air mattress and clothes in tow. She will cover the city of North Augusta. more

Alexandra Koch has joined the Aiken Standard newsroom as a crime and courts reporter. Koch lived outside of Chicago for most of her life and moved to Wilmington, N.C., during her high school years. Koch interned at the Wilmington Star News while still in high school and served as the yearbook editor-in-chief during her senior year. more

Tom Rosenstiel, executive director of the American Press Institute, will join the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism beginning this fall as the Eleanor Merrill Visiting Professor on the Future of Journalism, Dean Lucy A. Dalglish announced Friday. more

The Committee to Protect Journalists has announced that Executive Director Joel Simon has informed the board of directors that he will step down by the end of the year after almost a quarter century at the organization, including 15 years in his current role. more

Guardian Media Group today announces that chief executive Annette Thomas, who joined the group in March 2020, has decided to leave the company at the end of June. more

Danielle Echeverria has joined The Chronicle as a reporter on its Engagement and Breaking News team. more

The Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette newsroom is going through significant changes. With the recent retirement of Regional Editor Sid Schwartz and the departure of Managing Editor Ann Fiore, Joel Patenaude has joined the staff as managing editor. more

otto (formerly DEVCON Detect Inc.), a B2B security software start-up innovating JavaScript vulnerability testing, monitoring and protection, has tapped Deborah Dreyfuss-Tuchman to lead the launch of its enterprise solution, ottoBox. more

Lance Turner, currently the online editor for Arkansas Business Publishing Group, will succeed Gwen Moritz as editor of Arkansas Business, the weekly statewide business journal, ABPG President Mitch Bettis announced Monday. more