People and Papers

Brian Smith has joined the staff of the Mayfield Messenger as a staff reporter.

Smith is a native of Farmington and a 2006 graduate of the University of Kentucky.

He comes to the Messenger from The Anderson New in Lawrenceburg.

Jeanie Noble and Bobby Thorpe have been chosen to take over new roles at the Jackson Times.

Noble was promoted to general manager after working for over four years in the composition department.

Thorpe, who will now serve as editor of the paper, was the Breathitt County coroner.

Michele Carlton, the Kentucky New Era's feature editor for the past 10 years, has been promoted to the managing editors position at the Fort Campbell Courier.

The Courier is published by the Kentucky New Era.

Emily Parrino, who has worked at the copy desk for nearly two years, will become the paper's new features editor.

Jessica Singleton has joined the staff of the Owenton News-Herald.

Singleton graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Indiana.

She recently lived and worked in Senegal as a health education volunteer.

Mark Neikirk, the former managing editor of the Kentucky Post and the Cincinnati Post, has been named executive director of the Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement and Nonprofit Development at Northern Kentucky University.

Neikirk was followed in his former post by Keith Herrell who will serve as managing editor until the papers close Dec. 31.

Herrell has been with the staff since 1984 and writes a weekly column on politics and policy.

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