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Augusta deputy biz editor becomes editor of newspaper

February 21, 2018

Posted by Chris Roush

Joe Hotchkiss
Joe Hotchkiss

The Augusta Chronicle’s deputy business editor will become editor of its sister publication The Columbia County News-Times.

A story on the News-Times website states, “Joe Hotchkiss will assume his new duties Feb. 26.

“Current CCNT Editor Abbigail Remkus will become the director of communications for the Columbia County Board of Education.

“Hotchkiss, 49, has worked for The Chronicle since 1999, first as a copy editor then as its deputy editorial page editor since 2004. He became deputy business editor last June.

“Before that, he had been editor of two other Georgia newspapers, the Statesboro Herald and The Covington News.”

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