The Winston-Salem Journal has named Carol Hanner as the paper’s new managing editor:
Hanner, a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, will begin work at the Journal on April 5.
It will be her second time working for the Journal. Hanner, who is from Thomasville, worked at the newspaper from 1980 to 1984, serving as education reporter, assistant state editor and acting city editor.
From Winston-Salem, Hanner’s career took to her to the Rocky Mountain News (1984-88), the New Haven Register (1988-93), the Lexington Herald-Leader (1993-97), The State in Columbia, S.C. (1997-2000), the Phoenix New Times (2000-01) and back to the Rocky Mountain News (2002-08).
The Rocky Mountain News folded in 2009.
Hanner said “she doesn’t have a magic wand to cure the newspaper industry’s ills, but believes that ‘newspapers are still a vital part of the community.'”
