Sacramento Bee promotes Ashton to assistant managing editor

Adam Ashton

The Sacramento Bee has tapped Adam Ashton as assistant managing editor leading metro news. He recently served as Capitol bureau chief, leading a team of reporters covering California politics and government.

He was also a senior writer and anchored the Bee’s popular state worker coverage. He also served as a military reporter at The News Tribune and was a reporter on McClatchy’s foreign staff. He was also an assistant city editor at The Modesto Bee and a news assistant at The Associated Press.

Ashton has a B.A. from San Francisco State University.