Chicago Sun-Times names Newbart managing editor

The following excerpt was sent out from Editor & Publisher on appointments made by the Chicago Sun-Times:

Dave Newbart was named managing editor, news. Newbart has been with the Sun-Times for the past five years, serving as the interim managing editor for the last 11 months and previously as the deputy managing editor, news and city desk editor. He also was a part of the Sun-Times newsroom for more than 13 years from 1999-2012 as a reporter and then as assistant metro editor. In past roles, Newbart was the interim executive editor for the Chicago Reader and a senior editor for more than five years at DNAInfo/Chicago.

Newbart has won multiple awards as a reporter in Illinois and Wisconsin, including a Peter Lisagor Award for in-depth education reporting and an Illinois AP Editors Association Award for best entertainment coverage for his series on the 25th anniversary of “The Blues Brothers.”

As an editor, he oversaw reporters whose education, state government, crime and other coverage has been honored with a National Headliner Award and by the Chicago Headline Club, Illinois Press Association, Association of Alternative News Media and the National Association of Black Journalists. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, Knox College and Oak Park and River Forest High School.

Paul Saltzman was named deputy managing editor, enterprise and investigations. Most recently he has managed investigations and the Sunday paper as deputy metro editor, investigations. In his expanded role, he will also oversee enterprise reporting.

Saltzman helped develop “The Watchdogs” into a trusted brand for investigative journalism and has guided reporters on stories that have made an impact and that have been recognized with national honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Awards, National Headliner Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Awards, National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence Awards, Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Awards, Education Writers Association’s National Awards for Education Reporting and Society of Professional Obituary Writers’ “Grimmys” awards.

Saltzman is a two-time winner of the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors’ “Innovator of the Year” award; has developed collaborations with online, print and broadcast reporting partners in Chicago and nationally; and has been recognized as a John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year for volunteer efforts with The News Literacy Project to help students learn to tell what information they can trust.