Debra Adams Simmons, managing editor of The Plain Dealer, will become the paper's new editor in November, President and Publisher Terrance C. Z. Egger announced today.
Adams Simmons will replace Susan Goldberg, who is leaving to join Bloomberg News as an executive editor.
Adams Simmons, 45, came to the Plain Dealer in September 2007. She had previously been editor of the Akron Beacon Journal for four years. Before that, she had held jobs at The Detroit
Free Press, The Virginian-Pilot, The Hartford Courant and the Syracuse Herald-Journal. She had been a reporter, assignment editor, deputy managing editor, managing editor and editor.
"We will continue to build on the momentum of the past three years," Adams Simmons said. "Watchdog journalism is, and will continue to be, our most important priority."
Adams Simmons and her husband, Jonathan, live in Copley. They have two sons, Jonathan and Jacob, ages 12 and 10.
Goldberg had taken over as editor of the paper in May 2007, and was the first female editor of Ohio's largest daily newspaper. She had been editor of the San Jose Mercury-News before that, and had previously worked at newspapers including USA Today and the Detroit Free Press.
She said leaving The Plain Dealer was a difficult decision, but she was persuaded by the chance to help develop content for Bloomberg News. "In a short time, I have become deeply attached to Cleveland," Goldberg said, "both because of the work our staff has done, of which I am enormously proud, and because of the amazing people I have met inside and outside of the newsroom."
Egger called it a bittersweet day. "I'm sorry that Susan has decided to leave the paper, but I'm thrilled we have a wonderful new editor in Debra Adams Simmons, who is a first-rate journalist, strategist and leader."
Adams Simmons will replace Susan Goldberg, who is leaving to join Bloomberg News as an executive editor.
Adams Simmons, 45, came to the Plain Dealer in September 2007. She had previously been editor of the Akron Beacon Journal for four years. Before that, she had held jobs at The Detroit
Free Press, The Virginian-Pilot, The Hartford Courant and the Syracuse Herald-Journal. She had been a reporter, assignment editor, deputy managing editor, managing editor and editor."We will continue to build on the momentum of the past three years," Adams Simmons said. "Watchdog journalism is, and will continue to be, our most important priority."
Adams Simmons and her husband, Jonathan, live in Copley. They have two sons, Jonathan and Jacob, ages 12 and 10.
Goldberg had taken over as editor of the paper in May 2007, and was the first female editor of Ohio's largest daily newspaper. She had been editor of the San Jose Mercury-News before that, and had previously worked at newspapers including USA Today and the Detroit Free Press.
She said leaving The Plain Dealer was a difficult decision, but she was persuaded by the chance to help develop content for Bloomberg News. "In a short time, I have become deeply attached to Cleveland," Goldberg said, "both because of the work our staff has done, of which I am enormously proud, and because of the amazing people I have met inside and outside of the newsroom."
Egger called it a bittersweet day. "I'm sorry that Susan has decided to leave the paper, but I'm thrilled we have a wonderful new editor in Debra Adams Simmons, who is a first-rate journalist, strategist and leader."
[Source: Cleveland.com, the Plain Dealer online site.]
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