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(Arlington, VA): Former Boston Globe Washington Correspondent Bryan Bender (@BryanDBender) will be the new National Security Editor @politico. Also, Glenn Thrush (@glennthrush) has been promoted to Chief Political Correspondent. He had been Senior Staff Writer @politicomag.

(New York, NY): Changes on the Media Desk include Bill Brink  taking over as Media Editor and Connor Ennis (@EnnisNYT) becoming his Deputy. In addition, John Koblin (@koblin) leaves the Style section to join the Television Desk, while Sydney Ember (@melbournecoal) replaces Stuart Elliot covering Advertising and Marketing. And lastly, Randy Archibold (@randynyt) is now Deputy Sports Editor at @nytimes.

Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, FL): William Hatfield (@WilliamHNWFDN) has been named Executive Editor here (@TDOnline).

(Washington, DC):  Lisa Lerer (@llerer) has joined the @AP_Politics team to cover Hillary Clinton. She will continue her role @bpolitics as well.

(New York, NY): Meeta Agrawal (@meeta) is now Deputy Editor @EW.

/Entertainment Weekly (New York, NY): Karen Kovacs (@karenkovacs) has become Group Publisher @people and @EW.

(New York, NY): Laurel Pinson (@laurelpinson) has been named Digital Editorial Director of Glamour (@glamourmag) starting March 30th. She will be coming from Stylecaster, where she is currently Editor-in-Chief.

(New York, NY): David Firestone (@fstonenyt) is joining @FiveThirtyEight as its Managing Editor. He was formerly a member of the Editorial Board at The New York Times.

Mashable (@Mashable): Heidi Moore (@moorehn) is now a Business Editor for the outlet.
Gigaom (@Gigaom): The popular tech news site is no longer running. The final article was posted on March 10th.
Ebony (New York, NY): Mitzi Miller (@MitziMoments) has moved on from her position as Editor-in-Chief @EbonyMag to pursue new film and television writing opportunities.
(Santa Ana, CA): Publisher Rich Mirman adds CEO and President to his duties @OCRegister as Aaron Kushner has stepped down from the positions.

(Los Angeles, CA): Devon Maloney (@dynamofire) has been added to the staff @LATimes as Pop Music Editor.

Vocativ (@Vocativ): Jamie Tarabay (@JamieTarabay) is now a Senior Editor covering National Security for the outlet.

(San Andreas, CA) Bruce Kyse has been named Publisher @cal_enterprise.
(Stephenville, TX): The Stephenville Empire-Tribune (@empiretribune) has announced Todd Frantz as its new General Manager.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA): Business Assignment Editor/Columnist Henry Unger will be retiring from @ajc at the end of June.
WOLO-TV (Columbia, SC): Executive Producer Rob Dew has been promoted to Assistant News Director at this ABC affiliate (@abc_columbia).

(San Diego, CA): Watch Carlos Correa (@carloscorrea2) on XETV-TV (@sandiego6) weeknights at 4pm. Correa was previously with KERO-TV in Bakersfield.
(San Antonio, TX): Claudia Garofalo (@claudiaonliving) has left KCYY-FM (@Y100SanAntonio) to spend more time on her position as Co-Host of “San Antonio Living” on WOAI-TV.

(Houston, TX): KOLR/KOZL-TV Meteorologist Lindsey Day (@LindseyDayWx) will join the weather team @MyFoxHouston starting later this month.

(Dallas, TX): Long-time Co-Host of WFAA-TV’s “Good Morning Texas (@wfaagmt),” Amy Vanderoef (@AmyVanderoef) has moved on from the show.

(Little Rock, AR): Laura Monteverdi (@LauraMonteverdi) has been named a Multi-Media Journalist @THV11.

WGCL-TV (Atlanta, GA): Former WBFF-TV Reporter Melinda Roeder is joining this CBS affiliate (@cbs46). Also, Sports Anchor Fred Kalil joins from cross-town rival WXIA-TV. He starts next week.