Managing Editor Mizell Stewart III announced today that he will leave the Akron Beacon Journal, effective June 1.
Stewart, 42, is being succeeded as the top executive in the newsroom by Bruce Winges, who was named today as vice president and editor of the newspaper by Publisher Edward Moss.
Stewart, who has been managing editor 16 months, has been named editor of the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press, a Scripps-Howard newspaper company. The announcement of Stewart's new position was made simultaneously in Akron and Evansville.
Stewart, a Twinsburg native and graduate of Bowling Green State University, worked in Tallahassee, Fla., before coming to Akron in January 2006.
Moss thanked Stewart for his work.
``We've done a lot of great work... Mizell has led that,'' Moss told the staff during a morning meeting. Moss has been publisher in Akron since August, when the Beacon Journal was sold by the McClatchy Newspapers group to David Black, a Canadian newspaper company owner. McClatchy earlier acquired the Beacon Journal as part of its takeover of Knight Ridder newspapers.
Winges, 52, has worked at the Beacon Journal in a variety of newsroom and business-side positions since 1982. He was most recently deputy managing editor.
``I am humbled to be named leader of the newsroom and am looking forward to working with journalists who have the wherewithal to do the good journalism they are capable of doing,'' said Winges.
Moss said he couldn't be more pleased to name Winges as editor.
The Beacon Journal is changing into a multimedia company, as the industry grows online, Moss said.
``I'm confident Bruce is the right guy at the right time,'' said Moss.
Winges is a native of Louisville, Ky., and a graduate of the University of Kentucky. He previously worked in Huntington, W. Va.
i like to think this ol' hillbilly taught that hillbilly most of what he do know...but you all don't hole that agin him.
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