| Nida Asheer 
To keep up with today's media landscape, public relations professionals need to know not only who is going where, but also how to communicate more effectively with those journalists, bloggers, and influencers making moves. Continue reading for five of the week’s most significant newsroom changes, plus our Black History Month edition of blogs we love. Want even more media moves? Check out the latest issue of PR Newswire Media Moves on our Knowledge Center and follow @PRNMedia for daily updates. 1. Associated Press – Denver Bureau: Joe Danborn (@jdanborn) has been named news editor for the Associated Press Rockies region (@apwestregion), which includes Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. He makes the move from his current role as enterprise editor for the AP's southern states. Danborn has been with the AP for over a decade, since 2005. In those years, he has worked as a supervising editor, national desk editor, interim deputy regional editor for the South, and interim news editor for Tennessee & Kentucky before taking on the enterprise editor role in 2008. Danborn was also one of only six editors selected to develop and launch the first U.S. regional editing desk for the prestigious news agency. 2. Chicago Tribune: Editorial Page Editor Bruce Dold (@BruceDold) has replaced Gerould Kern as @ChicagoTribune editor. Dold has been with the paper for almost four decades, starting there as a reporter in 1978. He later joined the editorial board in 1990 before becoming editorial page editor in 2000. Dold also won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the murder of a three year old boy in 1994. 3. Sacramento Business Journal: @SacBiz is losing Editor Jack Robinson (@SacBizEditor) at the end of March. Robinson is moving to Philadelphia where his wife has accepted a new position. He joined the Sacramento Business Journal in 2011 as editor. Prior to that, he was managing editor at The Fresno Bee from 2006-2011 and assistant editor of the business & metro departments at the Los Angeles Times from 1997-2006. 4. The Cut – New York Magazine: Longtime Allure Editor Linda Wells has joined @TheCut as beauty editor-at-large. Wells founded Allure in 1991 and served as editor there for 24 years. She began her career at Vogue and also served as food editor at The New York Times Magazine. Wells is also a published author, having written her first book, Confessions of a Beauty Editor, in 2006. She will be writing weekly for The Cut on fashion, beauty, and health. 5. Richmond Times-Dispatch: Greg Shriver is now the deputy business editor at @RTDNEWS. Most recently, Shriver was the assistant managing editor at The Winchester Star for over seven years. His resume also includes experience in multiple editorial positions including city editor at The Winchester Star, senior copy editor at The Des Moines Register, and sports editor at The Fond du Lac Reporter for eight years. Influencer Intel of the Week: In honor of Black History Month, PR Newswire for Journalists reviewed four influential black entertainment bloggers. Check out Blog Profiles to learn more about these bloggers you should add to your media outreach. To reach the right journalists and influencers, you need up-to-date, accurate and in-depth intel. Request a demo of PR Newswire’s Agility workflow platform to learn more about the strength of our media database, targeting, and monitoring tools. 
Author Nida Asheer is a member of PR Newswire’s audience research team, which makes thousands of updates weekly to the media database underpinning our Agility workflow platform. In her audience researcher role, she keeps an eye on the latest media moves and news throughout the Southwest region. | 
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