Remember Randy Lovely...

Former Times Managing Editor Randy Lovely was promoted to Vice President News and Editor of The Arizona Republic. Lovely worked in Shreveport from 1997 to 2000. Lovely replaces Ward Bushee who left to become editor of The San Francisco Chronicle. Both are longtime Gannett employees. The Hearst Corporation owns The Chronicle.

From the Randy Lovely files (1 & 2): "Randy began his career as a reporter at the Sturgis (Mich.) Journal in 1986 and was named city editor in 1987. He moved to The News-Sentinel at Fort Wayne as a copy editor/page designer in 1988. He joined the Press-Telegram at Long Beach as a page designer in 1990. Randy joined The News-Press at Fort Myers in 1992 as assistant managing editor/photo and graphics. In 1996 he was named assistant managing editor/features and visuals at The News-Press. In 1997, he was named managing editor of The Times at Shreveport. He was named executive editor at Palm Springs in 2000." In 2002, Lovely was named managing editor of The Arizona Republic. He was promoted to executive editor in 2005.