He replaces Greg Zeller, who left the editor position last year.
Dowd has worked as a reporter for the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., and as an editor for the Middletown Times Herald-Record in the Hudson Valley. He’s been a city editor and an assistant managing editor at the Scranton Times & Tribune. His specialty is police and fire coverage, which has earned him first-place awards in two states. He won praise for a series of columns from Rome following the death of Pope John Paul II.
Dowd, 58, earned a bachelor’s degree in history at Buffalo’s Canisius College and a master’s in journalism/public affairs from American University in Washington, D.C.
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