The following was sent out from Editor & Publisher:
Michelle Bowers has been named president of South Carolina SBU for Lee Enterprises, which publishes the Morning News in Florence, Marion Star & Mullins Enterprise, The Hartsville Messenger and The Times and Democrat.
She most recently served as publisher of The Citizen in Auburn, New York, and previously worked as advertising director for Downtown Digital Group, a division of Johnson Newspaper Corporation in Watertown, New York. She was vice president of sales for All Times Publishing from 2013 to 2015. Bowers began her career in the industry in 1995 with The Post-Standard in Syracuse, New York, as an assistant to the national advertising manager and joined the sales team as an account executive in 1999.
She served as president of the New York Newspapers Advertising and Marketing Executives and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from State University of New York at Oswego.