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MASSACHUSETTS Peter Canellos, The Boston Globe’s Washington, D.C., bureau chief, has been named the Globe’s editorial page editor. He takes the place of Renee Loth, who will become a weekly columnist for the Globe’s op-ed page. Besides his new responsibilities with the editorial page, Canellos will oversee the Sunday Globe’s Ideas section, which he helped launched. Canellos has worked at the Globe since 1988, as a City Hall bureau chief, metro editor and national reporter for four presidential elections. During his most recent time as Washington bureau chief, he covered the 2008 presidential campaign and was the editor of a Globe team’s biography, “Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy,” and the seven-part series based on the book that ran in the Globe. Loth has been editorial page editor for nine years, a role that made her the highest ranking woman in the Globe’s news operation, according to the Globe’s publisher. P. Steven Ainsley. Loth was a political editor for five years at The Boston Phoenix before going to the Globe in 1985 as a writer for the Globe’s Sunday magazine. She reported at the Statehouse, then covered the 1992 presidential campaign before becoming political editor in 1993. After six years as deputy editor of the editorial page, she became editor in 2000. Loth also has been an associate editor at the former New England Monthly magazine, based in Haydenville, and editor of the East Boston Community News.
Becca Manning has become editor of the Pembroke Express. She takes overas editor from JoshCutler, who will remainas publisher. Manning has been at the Express as assistant editor since its launch in April 2008. She previously worked at the Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call as a city and educationreporter. Jim Russell has been appointed general manager of the daily Laconia Citizen. Russell was promoted from corporate circulation director for the Citizen’s parent company, the George J. Foster Co. Inc. of Dover. In that job, he was responsible for all circulation sales, service and delivery for the Citizen and its sister newspapers, Foster’s Daily Democrat, the Rochester Times, and the Sanford (Maine) News. Russell has been with the Foster company since May 2003. Previously, he spent 24 years with the Essex County Newspaper Group in Massachusetts as assistant circulation director. Russell is replacing the former general manager and executive editor, John Howe, who finished a 32-year career with the Citizen June 12. As general manager, Russell will oversee all operations of the Citizen.
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Greg
Reibman has been named publisher of Needham, Mass.-based GateHouse
Media NewEngland’s Metro division newspapers, which include the
Allston/Brighton TAB, the Brookline TAB, the Cambridge Chronicle, the
Cambridge TAB, the Dover/Sherborn Press, the Roslindale Transcript,
the Somerville Journal, the Needham Times, the Newton TAB, the Watertown
TAB, the Wellesley Townsman, the West Roxbury Transcript and their respective
Web sites. Reibman’s new duties will build on his former role
as editor in chief of the Metro division papers, as he oversees strategic
and business operations while continuing editorial supervision. He will
also assist in the development of 170 GateHouse New England Web sites,
which include 162 Wicked Local sites. Reibman’s newspaper career
began with the Newton, Cambridge, Boston and Brookline TABs, where he
sold advertising. After working on the Dallas Morning News 
sports desk, he joined Needham-based Community Newspaper Company in
1994 as arts andspecial sections editor for the company’s 87 weeklies
and four dailies. He returned to Community Newspaper Company in 2001
after time at the Boston Herald as deputy managing editor, and he has
beeneditor in chief of the Metro division since. GateHouse bought the
Community Newspaper Company newspapers after Reibman’s returnthere.
Wayne
D. Pelland has been named senior vice president of operations
at The Providence Journal Co. Pelland was promoted from vice president
of operations. He is a 20-year veteran of the Journal. Pelland also
has been operations director, assistant to the operations director,
an industrial engineer and systems analyst. Under Pelland’s oversight,
the Journal completed a recent major upgrade to its production plant,
including replacement of all press electronics and press folders. Pelland
is responsible for the company’s printing and distribution sales,
press operations, preprint packaging, home delivery, and building services.
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