Lee Ann Hamilton is the new business editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writes Kevin Osborne of CityBeat.
She replaces assistant managing editor for business Carolyn Pione, who was laid off in December.
Hamilton had been special projects editor of the paper. Before that, she had been deputy managing editor of the First Amendment desk and deputy managing editor of enterprise and special projects. She had also been acting managing editor of the paper from November 2003 to May 2004.
Before that, Hamilton was national editor at USA Today for four years, and managing editor of The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Mississippi.
She is an Ohio State University graduate. In 2008, she edited “Foreclosure’s Fallout,” which took second prize and beat out the Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Bloomberg News and others for Excellence in Economic Journalism, Fund for American Studies, a non-profit affiliated with Georgetown University.
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