MICHAEL SHEARER
Shearer to
Columbus Dispatch; BJ ME Cheryl Powell will be Interim Editor
Akron Beacon
Journal Editor Michael Shearer was named executive editor of The Columbus
Dispatch. Since both are part of Gannett’s USA TODAY network, he’s working for
the same people.
Michael is from
the Columbus area and has family there so it’s sort of a homecoming for him. He
was at the BJ for almost 5 years.
He oversaw news
at The Canton Repository, Alliance Review, Massillon Independent and
Kent-Ravenna Record-Courier.
Shearer, who
will begin his new role Jan. 8, grew up in the Columbus area and served as top
editor of The Advocate in Newark from 2000 to 2016.
The former
GateHouse Media hired him to lead eight Northeast Ohio newsrooms in 2017 before
it acquired the Beacon Journal in 2018 and merged with Gannett in 2019.
Managing Editor
Cheryl Powell, at the BJ for 26 years, will be interim editor until a new
editor is selected. Cheryl also was the Metro editor and a reporter at the BJ.
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