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Mark Woodward, executive editor of the Bangor Daily News, is retiring as of Jan. 1. Woodward has worked for the Daily News for 38 years, beginning as a city reporter in 1971. In 1982, he became editorial page editor. He left the paper for eight months in 1997 to be communications director for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, but returned and was named executive editor later that same year.

David B. Offer, retired executive editor of the Kennebec Journal of Augusta and a sister newspaper, the Morning Sentinel of Waterville, has become a professor of journalism at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Offer began his career in 1965 as a reporter.

MASSACHUSETTS

The Boston Globe has undergone several changes in its sports department. Gary Washburn is replacing Marc Spears as national NBA writer. Washburn has worked for the Los Angeles Daily News; the Contra Costa Times of Walnut Creek, Calif.; MLB.com in Baltimore; and the former Seattle Post-Intelligencer, where he covered the NBA and the Seattle SuperSonics. Albert Breer is becoming national NFL writer, replacing Mike Reiss, who left to write a blog for ESPN in Boston and who appears on the Watertown-based NESN television station as a New England Patriots analyst. Breer has replaced Reiss in the past, as the Patriots writer for MetroWest Daily News of Framingham when Reiss joined the Globe in 2004. Breer has also covered the Dallas Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News before moving to The Sporting News as its national NFL writer. Christopher L Gasper is the Globe’s new Web columnist, replacing Tony Massarotti. Massarotti is now working for radio station WBZ-FM in Boston and continues to write part-time for Boston.com, while Gasper will become the face and voice of Boston.com sports. Adam Kilgore, who has been a part of the Globe’s Red Sox coverage for the past two seasons, is moving to the Patriots beat, where he will join Monique Walker and Breer to provide coverage of the team. Walker had previously split her job between the sports department and the Globe South section. Julian Benbow, who used to split his time between the sports department and the Globe North section, will be moving to the Celtics beat with Frank Dell’Apa and Washburn.

The Transitions were written from published reports by Zachary Boutin and Jillian Saftel, undergraduate students at Northeastern University and Bulletin correspondents, and Mary Catherine Adams, a graduate student in the School of Journalism there and news staff coordinator for the Bulletin.