Newsmakers

-- Dana Burke has been named managing editor of The Citizen in Clear Lake, and Mary Alys Cherry was named editor emeritus.

Dave and Cue Lewis will be leaving The Madisonville Meteor for The Examiner in Navasota, where publisher Dave Kucifer is retiring. The Lewises have been at The Meteor since Aug. 7, 2006.

Edna Keasling assumed publisher duties at Madisonville in June.

-- Erin Heine gave birth to Macy Jade on April 18. Heine is an advertising representative at the Elgin Courier. The baby weighed seven pounds and five ounces and was 19 3/4 inches long.

  -- Kathleen D. Inman joined the Eldorado Success staff. She came from Hillsboro and wears many hats at the Success.

 -- James Jones, formerly of the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung, joined the San Marcos Daily Record as advertising director.

  -- Craig Kapitan of The Eagle in Bryan-College Station shared the 2008 national reporting award from The Livingston Awards with Mark Mazzetti, of The New York Times. Kapitan won for his series, “The Long Road Home,” chronicling the struggle of an Iraq war hero who returns home with post-traumatic stress disorder.  The $10,000 prizes are limited to journalists under the age of 35 and are the largest all-media, general-reporting prizes in the country.

  -- The Killeen Daily Herald announced the addition of two journalists.

Bill Begley joined as assistant managing editor and for the past two years had been assistant managing editor at the Kerrville Daily Times.

Clare Haefner joined as assistant news editor from the St. Augustine (Fla.) Record.

-- Krysta Mayfield is the newest columnist at the Andrews County News.

-- Emmett McKinley became publisher of The Bastrop Advertiser, replacing Stan Woody who took the publisher’s role at the San Marcos Daily Record. For 16 years McKinley worked for Media News Group in Texas, New Mexico and New England.

  -- Tony Morris has been named publisher of the Nueces County Record Star, replacing John Bowers. Morris currently serves as a regional publisher for American Consolidated Media, the Record Star’s parent company, with management responsibilities over the daily Alice Echo-News Journal and weekly The Freer Press and three other publications. He will continue serving in that role in addition to his new duties in Robstown.

  -- Armand Nardi is the new publisher at the Gainesville Daily Register. Nardi comes to Gainesville from Winter Haven, Fla., where he was publisher of the News Chief. He started working in newspapers in 1989 Nardi also has responsibility for advertising due to the recent retirement of David Mann.

  -- Rich Oppel, the retiring editor of the Austin American-Statesman, has been named a co-chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board. Oppel has served on the Pulitzer board, which has 19 members, since 2000.

  -- Colin Pope has been promoted to editor of the Austin Business Journal. Pope, who has spent the past two years as managing editor, begins his new post immediately. He joined the Business Journal in 1998 as a staff writer.

  -- Sergio Salinas, executive vice president and general manager of the San Antonio Express-News since 2006, is retiring to form a media consulting firm. Salinas has spent 25 years as a senior executive in the newspaper industry in San Antonio, Dallas and other markets.

  -- Joe Southern has been hired as the managing editor of the Hereford Brand. Southern most recently worked as a feature writer and copy editor for the Amarillo Globe-News. Prior to that he was a reporter, editor and page designer in Colorado, North Carolina and Minnesota.

  -- David Sullens resigned last month as publisher of the Athens Daily Review to pursue other opportunities.

  -- Rose Lori Thayer is the new editor of the West Austin News. She replaced Yvonne Lim Wilson who left to have a baby and start a new Web site AsianAustin.com.

  -- Jennifer Tynes has joined the Lake Country Sun as staff writer. Prior to coming to work at the Sun, Tynes was the European account manager and certified solar control specialist at Bekaert Specialty Films in San Diego for four years and also worked as a technical support specialist for Sprint.

  -- Two reporters at The Dallas Morning News are among 28 journalists in The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard 71st class of Nieman Fellows.

Alfredo Corchado, of the Mexico bureau, will study the fallout of organized crime on Latin America’s young, fragile democracies, particularly the impact on the freedom of the press and consequences for the United States.

Chris Vognar, movie critic, will study interdisciplinary connections between African-American culture and history and today’s African-American pop culture. Vognar is the 2009 Arts and Culture Nieman Fellow.

  -- Brenda Young has joined the staff of The River Cities Daily Tribune in Marble Falls as a politics and courthouse reporter. She previously was a freelance business writer. Also, reporter Nicole Richardson has left the Daily Tribune to continue her college education in South Carolina.