You can call him Professor Mitch soon

You can call him Professer Mitch starting the end of this month, but you can still call him Editor Mitch part-time. . BJ online editor Mitch McKenney will join Kent State University as an assistant professor at the Stark campus. Here's the memo from Editor Bruce Winges:

I am sorry to announce that Mitch will be leaving us to join Kent State University as an assistant professor in journalism and mass communication at the school’s Stark Campus. His new job will begin toward the end of August. I am happy to announce that Mitch will not be leaving us totally – he will continue to work at the Beacon Journal as a part-time editor.

Mitch has taught at Kent State as an adjunct professor for some time. He also has almost completed work on an MBA from KSU. He also holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from Kent.

Mitch joined the Beacon Journal in September 1998 as a deputy metro editor. Since then he has worked extensively in metro, as features editor and most recently as online editor. Before joining the Beacon he worked at the Palm Beach Post and the late Rochester (N.Y.) Times-Union.

Mitch lives in Hartville with his wife, Kim, and two sons and one daughter.

Please join me in wishing Mitch well. And if you miss him when he leaves at the end of August, he’ll be back soon.

Thanks, Bruce

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Meanwhile there was an announcement on today's business page that Steve Cageao (pronounced Kah-gee-0) will replace Linda Lyell as director of operations for Ohio.com, the newspaper's website. Cageao began his career in the 1970s as a research clerk at the New York Daily News and had several advertising and sales jobs. He comes to the BJ from Charlotte.com in Charlotte, NC

[Charlotte.com is the website of the Charlotte Observer, once a Knight Ridder newspaper and once guided by Editor Perry Morgan, once editor of the BJ]

Cageao and wife Audrey have a son, Fred, who will be attending the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.

Ohio.com is the fastest-growing part of the BJ business and averages 912,461 unique visitors and more than 6.8 million page views each month, according to Alton Brown, BJ executive vice president and business manager