Veteran journalist Nichols lands EIC role at Detroit Free Press

The following excerpt was sent out from detroitnews.com: The Detroit Free Press on Wednesday announced the appointment of Nicole Avery Nichols — a veteran journalist with more than three decades’ experience in the industry — to serve as the newspaper’s top editor. Avery Nichols, 53, most recently served as editor-in-chief of Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news […]

Detroit Free Press names Kaffer editorial page editor

The Detroit Free Press has appointed Nancy Kaffer editorial page editor, where she will write about politics, policy and the relationship between the two. Kaffer joined the Free Press in September 2012 as a columnist. Before that, she was a reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business. The award-winning columnist also reported for the Hattiesburg American, Metro […]