Veteran reporter and associate editor Dan O’Brien has been named managing editor of The Business Journal in Youngstown, Ohio.
A story on its website states, “O’Brien’s editorial cartoons have graced The Business Journal since 1987. He became a full-time reporter in 1998 and was named associate editor in 2010. Most recently, his series of award-winning investigative reports, produced in partnership with ProPublica, that revealed the extent of the Chill-Can debacle and the failures of the city’s tax abatement policies.”
In addition, The Business Journal named a chief financial/technology officer and a chief operating officer.
Eileen Lovell, who joined the company in 1987 as a part-time bookkeeper and became treasurer and assistant publisher in 2003, has been named chief financial/technology officer.
Michael Moliterno, anchor of the Daily BUZZ webcast, has been named chief operating officer. Moliterno joined the company in 2009 as a videographer and was named vice president of operations in 2015.
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