KAYE APPOINTED AS NEW EDITOR OF DAILY NEWS.Byline: Daily News Ron Kaye, longtime managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily News The Daily News of Los Angeles, also known as the Los Angeles Daily News, is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers , was appointed editor of the newspaper Tuesday by Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Tracy Rafter. Kaye, who joined the Daily News in 1985 as an assistant city editor, succeeds David J. Butler who last week took over as editor and publisher of the Detroit News when MediaNews Group bought it from the Gannett Co. MediaNews, the nation's seventh-largest newspaper publisher, is the parent company that owns the Daily News and operates eight newspapers in the Southern California market as the Los Angeles Newspaper Group The Los Angeles Newspaper Group is an umbrella group of local daily newspapers published in the greater Los Angeles area by MediaNews Group. The news coverage of the newspapers are mainly local stories. . In a related announcement, Gerald R. Grilly, president and chief executive officer of LANG, named Steve Lambert, editor of the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, as LANG vice president for news, a position formerly held by Butler. In announcing Kaye's appointment as editor of the Daily News, Rafter said ``he was the clear and obvious choice to lead the charge to be an even stronger voice of the Valley. ``Ron's passion for getting at the truth and finding the relevant news that impacts our readers' lives is truly what we need at this time. He will be a dynamic partner in paving the way to what our newspaper in print and online will be in the future. I couldn't be more pleased.'' Kaye, 64, served as managing editor of the newspaper since 1993. He has a long career in journalism as a reporter and editor including stints with The Associated Press, Newsweek magazine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, National Enquirer, The Australian and the defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper, published Monday through Friday afternoon and on Saturdays. It was part of the Hearst syndicate. . ``This is the most exciting challenge of my career and comes at a time when the media is open to trying different things to serve newspaper readers and Internet users better,'' Kaye said. ``The San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. has been my home and my passion for 20 years. Fighting to make it a better place to work, live and play has always been the mission of the Daily News and I will do my best to carry on that tradition of community service.'' Kaye and his wife, Deborah, a strategic planning researcher at Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) ., live in Woodland Hills. Their son, Alfred, is a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (body, education) University of California at Berkeley - (UCB) See also Berzerkley, BSD. http://berkeley.edu/. Note to British and Commonwealth readers: that's /berk'lee/, not /bark'lee/ as in British Received Pronunciation. . In assuming the duties of LANG vice president for news, Lambert, 48, will retain his responsibilities as editor of the Sun and Daily Bulletin. Lambert, a 27-year veteran of the newspaper business, joined LANG in 2002 as editor of The Sun. He became editor of the Daily Bulletin as well in 2004. Under his direction, the newspapers have received national recognition for their breakthrough journalism and aggressive use of the Internet and multimedia. In 2004, the papers won a Scripps HowardNational Journalism Award, two National Headliner Awards The National Headliner Awards are a prize given out by Press Club of Atlantic City since 1935. Both broadcast journalism and print journalism are recognized, in separate categories. External links
In making the announcement, Grilly said Lambert will ``work closely with me and the LANG executive team in continuing to improve the news gathering and reporting'' of the group's newspapers. ``I'm especially pleased that both of these key senior executive promotions came from within the LANG newspaper organization,'' Grilly said. The LANG group also includes the Press-Telegram of Long Beach, the Pasadena Star-News, the Whittier Daily News, the San Gabriel Valley The San Gabriel Valley is one of the principal valleys of southern California. It lies to the east of the city of Los Angeles, to the north of the Puente Hills, to the south of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the west of the Inland Empire. Tribune and the Redlands Daily Facts. In addition to the daily newspapers and eight Web sites, LANG includes Impacto USA, LA.com and Grunion grunion: see silversides. grunion Edible Pacific fish (Leuresthes tenuis) found along the western coast of the U.S. In the warm months, it lays its eggs in beach sand during a full or new moon when the tide cycle is at its peak. Gazette, plus more than 15 other weekly newspapers and the Original Apartment Magazines. With more than 50 daily newspapers and 120 nondaily publications across 11 states, MediaNews' total daily circulation exceeds 1.8 million and its total Sunday circulation exceeds 2.6 million. MediaNews is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Denver. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) KAYE |
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