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Mike James Mike James, deputy sports editor for the past three years, is the new sports editor of the Los Angeles Times, according to a memo from Editor Russ Stanton. The promotion was effective Monday. Mike James named sports editor at Los Angeles Times

Vince Doria Vince Doria now is a BlackBerry man. The sports world vibrates in his pants pocket every few seconds. Talk to him for 15 minutes and he will take out his latest little gadget, contraption, whatever it is, at least three or four times and click his fingers across the miniature keyboard to answer [...]

Paul Skrbina of the Chicago Tribune and Jeff Kuehn of The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Mich., have become leaders of Paul Skrbina APSE’s Great Lakes region, elected last month at the convention in Pittsburgh. Skrbina, who recently joined the Tribune as associate sports editor/high schools, had been sports editor at Sauk Valley Newspapers in Sterling, [...]

Florida Today has launched a daily television show on the local cable channel. Sports editor Lee Nessel produces, scripts and anchors a sports show each Friday that focuses on the local news, people and events in Brevard County. Lee Nessel All the TV stations broadcast in Brevard are based in Orlando, so Florida Today’s efforts [...]

 Fayetteville’s Adams steps up to region chair Steve Trosky, sports editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has been elected vice chair of the APSE’s Atlantic Coast Steve Trosky Region, which includes papers in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Trosky was elected through an e-mail vote this week. Todd M. Adams of the Fayetteville Observer is [...]

 Former Democrat and Chronicle and Times-Union Sports Editor Tom Batzold died this morning as a result of complications Tom Batzold from a stroke he suffered June 8. Batzold, 56, of Irondequoit, was a 30-year employee of Gannett Rochester Newspapers. Former Rochester sports editor Batzold dies at 56

Dave Lavender: Ernie Salvatore, who spent more than half a century as Huntington’s marquee sports writer, editor and columnist, has died. He worked for nearly 60 years as a writer and editor for The Huntington-Advertiser and then The Herald-Dispatch, two newspapers that consolidated. Salvatore, revered sportswriter in Huntington, dies 

 Randy Harvey, Sports Editor of the Los Angeles Times since 2006, will become associate editor, effective immediately. In this role, Randy will take on a host of broad and important responsibilities that currently keep me from spending more time in the newsroom. Randy Harvey promoted at L.A. Times