Daily Record Adds Opinion Page Editor
by October 29, 2001 12:00 am 98 views
Kent Marts, editor of the Benton County Daily Record, recently announced the hiring of Josh Johnson as editorial page editor. He replaces Ted Truby, 55, who died in July of a brain aneurysm after only working at the Daily Record for about a month.
A graduate of John Brown University, Johnson is the second new editor to beef up Marts’ staff since Sept. 30.
That’s when the Daily Record, a Bentonville-based section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, named Steve Ramos night editor.
Johnson returns to the area from Decatur, Ill., where he was a copy editor for that city’s 45,000-circulation Herald & Review. According to a press release from the Daily Record, Johnson won several state and national awards while serving as editor in chief and opinion page writer of JBU’s student newspaper, the Threefold Advocate.
This is not Johnson’s first time working for Community Publishers Inc., the holding company for the Daily Record and Northwest Arkansas Times, both of which in August of 2000 entered into an “alliance” with the D-G.
Johnson was a reporter for the Siloam Springs Herald-Leader after graduating from college. The Liberty Lake, Wash., native and his wife, Kim, live in Centerton.
He joins the Daily Record‘s editorial board, which is comprised of Marts, Daily Record Publisher Mike Brown and CPI President Steve Trolinger.
“At its best, there’s no better marketplace of ideas for community discussion than a newspaper’s opinion page,” Johnson said.