Former Plain Dealer assistant ME and reporter Mark Russell was named editor of the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday, accepting the top newsroom job six years after arriving at the news operation.
Russell, who was managing editor and then "print news manager" in a newsroom reorganization, succeeds Charlotte Hall, who retired on Oct. 1.
"I am honored and humbled to become editor of the Sentinel and the leader of such a talented and hard-working staff of journalists," Russell said in an announcement. "I intend to drive hard to produce watchdog journalism and expand our digital game to make sure we're delivering compelling content on mobile and the web as well as in print."
Before joining the Sentinel, Mark was assistant managing editor/metro at The Plain Dealer. Before that, Mark was The Plain Dealer's business editor for four years. He started at the newspaper in 1987 as a business reporter and later moved to the city desk and then served as an assistant city editor. Mark left The Plain Dealer to join The Boston Globe as assistant metropolitan editor in 1993, a position he held for two years before returning to The Plain Dealer.
Earlier in his career, Mark was a staff reporter for nearly three years in The Wall Street Journal’s Cleveland and Pittsburgh bureaus.
