The following was sent out on behalf of The Los Angeles Times’ behalf of managing editor Sara Yasin, deputy managing editor Shelby Grad and assistant managing editor for audience Samantha Melbourneweaver:
Kelcie Pegher
We are excited to announce Kelcie Pegher’s new role as director of platforms.
With her expanded duties, Pegher will unite programming of all our platforms, from home screens to social media, under one unit. This will include alerts, social video and our partnerships with aggregators and other media entities. The goal is to develop centralized, streamlined workflows that both foster more creativity in how we present our content and build new best practices that align with major changes we are seeing in the industry.
Pegher will oversee three distinct disciplines and be the leader of our platform operations both in handling breaking news and in coming up with the best ways to show off our signature work.
More about the staffers working with platforms:
Georgia Geen
Georgia Geen joined the audience team as a multiplatform editor working on our news aggregator partnerships in 2022. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, she helps to manage the day-to-day coordination, push alerts and optimization of Times journalism on news aggregator platforms.
Eduardo Gonzalez
Eduardo Gonzalez has been a web producer and writer at the Los Angeles Times since 2014. He was hired to start up High School Insider as a producer and copy editor. Gonzalez joined the Sports department shortly after to help with web production. He hails from Arizona and is a graduate of USC, Georgetown University and the University of Florida.
Thomas Suh Lauder
Thomas Suh Lauder will continue his work as an assistant editor. A graduate of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lauder has been with the Los Angeles Times since 2000, specializing in informational graphics, data journalism and digital mapping.
Jevon Phillips
Jevon Phillips joined the Los Angeles Times in 2004 as the evening producer on the website’s homepage and in sports. He made the transition to entertainment five years later and helped maintain its online section.