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Executive suite: At the Associated Press of New York City, James Reindl has been named major accounts development director in the newspapers and new media department; previously he was chief of the Chicago bureau of the wire service, responsible for all activities in Illinois, a job he'd held

Publisher: At Texas' Borger News-Herald, L.W. McCall has been named publisher; previously he was publisher of the Pampa News, also in Texas, a job he'd held for the last seven years. Earlier, McCall was publisher of Maryland's Linton Daily Citizen and was general manager of the Mid Valley Town Crier in Weslaco, Texas. ...

Editor-in-chief: At the Chicago Sun-Times, John Barron has been named editor-in-chief; previously he was executive managing editor. Barron started at Crain's Chicago Business as a graphics editor and later worked as an editor and senior editor at Detroit Monthly. He joined the Sun-Times in 1995 and was a business reporter, Sunday Showcase editor, deputy features editor and features editor. Also at the Sun-Times, Don Haynes has been named managing editor; previously he was managing editor for news, a job he'd held since 2003. Haynes joined the Sun-Times in 1982 as a reporter and also worked as city editor and metro editor. ...

Editors: At Florida's Palm Beach Post, John Bartoske has been named editor; previously he was managing editor, a job he'd held since 2000. Bartoske joined the paper in 1986 and was news editor, deputy metro editor and deputy managing editor before his 2000 promotion. Earlier, he had a 10-year career at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. Bartoske succeeds Eddie Sears, who recently retired. Sears had been editor in Palm Beach since 1985. ... At The Banner-Graphic in Greencastle, Ind., Lisa Meyer Trigg has been named editor; previously she was assistant editor, a job she'd held since 2000. A 16-year veteran of the paper, Trigg has worked for papers in Terre Haute and Madisonville, Ky. ... At Kentucky's Mayfield Messenger, Jim Abernathy has been named editor; previously he had been managing editor, a job he'd held since 2000. Abernathy joined the paper in 1974 as a general assignment reporter and photographer; earlier he had worked at two weeklies in Kentucky. ... At the Sun Chronicle in North Attleboro, Mass., Mike Kirby has been named editor; previously he was managing editor, a job he'd held since 1998. A 25-year veteran of the paper, Kirby started out as a part-time sports reporter while still in college; earlier he was local news editor and assistant managing editor. Kirby replaces Ned Bristol, who's been editor of the paper since 1998; Bristol has been with the Sun Chronicle since 1972. Earlier in his career, Bristol was with Rhode Island's Providence Journal and the Morning Herald of Hagerstown, Md. ... At Pennsylvania's Indiana Gazette, William Kennedy has been named executive editor; most recently he was executive editor of Kansas' Topeka Capital Journal. Earlier in his career, Kennedy was managing editor of Georgia's Augusta Chronicle and copy desk chief and news editor at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio. ... # >ET