PR Newswire for Journalists Community Updates
A monthly roundup of tips, expert alerts, job opportunities, and media moves
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Media Updates
The Cision Media Research Team maintains a database of more than 1.6 million records, including social influencers, traditional media contacts, outlets and opportunities. Here is a sampling of recent media moves. Follow the team at @Media_Moves.
USA Today: Karen Weintraub has joined USA Today as a reporter covering patient safety. Based in Boston, Weintraub spent the past decade as a freelance journalist and has written regularly for The New York Times, USA Today, Scientific American, Technology Review, and STAT. She also is an adjunct professor of journalism at Harvard Extension School and Boston University.
McClatchy: McClatchy has announced the promotion of Stephanie Pedersen to president and editor of The News Tribune and Washington State regional editor of McClatchy’s four newsrooms comprising The News Tribune, The Olympian, The Bellingham Herald, and the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, Washington. Pedersen will also serve as president of The Olympian and begin in her new role at the end of June when she relocates to Tacoma. Pedersen is currently executive editor and general manager of The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she has led the newsroom for four years.
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