Borrell Associates has announced management changes that include the promotion of Jim Brown to the role of president and Colby Atwood transitioning to executive director and senior advisor. It is the second management change since February, when the company promoted Corey Elliott to senior vice president of Local Market Intelligence.

Brian Skoloff, an Associated Press video journalist who has covered numerous big stories across the United States while training many text reporters on visual storytelling, has been appointed West deputy news director for video.

Joseph Leong has been named senior group publisher for Lake Media. He will oversee operations in the lake area for all of GateHouse Media's holdings.

Wayne Smith has taken the reins as editor of the Palatka Daily News and leader of the paper's award-winning news team.

Tim Reeves has rejoined the staff of The Vicksburg (Miss.) Post.

Reeves, a veteran journalist, served as president, editor and publisher of The Post from September 2014 to August 2017, when he left to open his own newspaper and media consulting business.

PJ Browning, president and publisher of The Post and Courier in Charleston, was elected president of the South Carolina Press Association at the group's Annual Meeting Saturday at The Marriott in Columbia.

The South Carolina Senate has honored retiring Associated Press journalist Jack Jones for his more than 40 years in news media.

State Sen. Dick Harpootlian took to the Senate floor, one day before Jones retired after 25 years with the AP.

Brent A. Powers has been named president of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He succeeds Todd Nelson, who announced his retirement recently.

Walter E. Hussman Jr., chairman of WEHCO Media and publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is at war again. This time, it's with the internet. But rather than face his competitor head-on in what would most certainly be a losing battle, he's leaning in and gambling on a new strategy.

"People don't realize how bad things are," he says. "The newspaper industry in America is verging on total collapse ... You're going to start seeing more daily newspapers close. We've lost Arkadelphia. We lost Hope. I think we're going to lose more.

"It's a real challenge for the Democrat-Gazette, too. We've got to figure out a new business model because the one we're on just is not working."

Timothy D. Burke, who led The Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News into the digital news age and strengthened the newspapers' ties in the community, is leaving his role as publisher.

Burke, 58, who currently serves as president-elect of SNPA, will join LRP Media Group in Palm Beach Gardens as senior vice president and publisher of human resources products in early June.