Samantha Gowen, an assistant business editor, has been named business editor of the Orange County Register.
She replaces Bernard Wolfson, who left the paper to become a senior editor at Kaiser Health News.
Gowen has been with the paper since October 2000, starting out as a copy editor. She was also a page designer, pets reporter and editor, and trending reporter. She joined the business desk in August 2012 as a business presentation editor. She became assistant business editor in February 2014.
Before joining the Register, Gowen was at the Palm Beach Post at the Progress-Index in Petersburg, Virginia.
Gowen is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
