Merged Virginia newspapers announce new top editor
Posted Jul 22, 2019 05:21:14 PM.
NORFOLK, Va. — The executive editor of a New Jersey newspaper is the new top editor of The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press.
The Virginian-Pilot reports that Tribune Publishing Executive Editor Par Ridder announced to the staffs of the newspapers on Monday that Kris Worrell will take over as editor-in-chief on Aug. 26.
Worrell, 53, has served as executive editor and vice-president of news for The Press of Atlantic City in New Jersey since 2014. She previously served as executive editor and regional editor at the Observer-Dispatch in New York, managing editor of the Beaumont Enterprise in Texas, assistant managing editor of The Times Union in New York and special projects editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Worrell’s first newsroom position was as a reporter in the Nags Head bureau for The Pilot.
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