New managing editor right at home in the newsroom

Wendy Holdren, an award-winning Register-Herald journalist who hails from Wyoming County, has been appointed managing editor of the daily newspaper in Beckley.

Holdren, 29, began her career in journalism at The Register-Herald in 2011, shortly after graduating from Concord University.

Earlier this year she was named 2017 Reporter of the Year by Community Newspapers Holding Inc., which owns the Beckley newspaper and more than a hundred others across the country, including the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, the Times West Virginian in Fairmont and The Fayette Tribune in Oak Hill.

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