Winges retires from BJ

Bruce Winges, at the BJ for 37 years including 11 as editor, is retiring from Ol’ Blue Walls.

Michael Shearer, editor and manager of The Record-Courier in Kent and northeastern Ohio regional editor for GateHouse Media, which purchased the Beacon Journal from Black Press last year, will add the BJ editor title to his job description.

Bruce succeeded Mizell Stewart as BJ editor. He is married to Bonnie Bolden, a former BJ department editor who, like me, is a WVU School of Journalism graduate.