New Business Reporter Starting

Please join us in welcoming Tarah Holland to The Times and shreveporttimes.com as our business and general assignment reporter. She takes reporter Velda Hunter's previous assignment. Hunter shifted to the Shreveport City Hall beat in late July.
Education: B.S. in journalism and mass communication from North Carolina A&T in 2004.
Previous assignments: News & Record (Greensboro, N.C.) sports and general assignment reporter and The Roanoke Times government reporter (Virginia).
Local connection: Brother stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base.

Preview Changes and New Assignments

This Friday’s Preview section is juiced with new features. Plus, all of your Friday Living features are packaged inside the weekly tab.

New assignments
City government reporter Joel Anderson is shifting to our Sports team.
Soon, you’ll read Anderson’s byline on sports pages and blogs. You’ll hear his commentary in podcasts. For iTunes downloading, copy and paste http://www.shreveporttimes.com/external/freeforall.xml into the field. Anderson e-mail: joelanderson@gannett.com

Business reporter Velda Hunter replaces Anderson on the city beat. Hunter's previous experience reporting and editing at several newspapers in Texas -- Clute most recently -- has served many stories. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.
Hunter e-mail: veldahunter@gannett.com

We hope to announce a new business reporter in the coming weeks -- to be posted here. These changes take place as we close the month.

Coming August 12th:
--The comics are headed back to a broadsheet format.
--The TV Book will be tucked inside in a tabloid format.
--Celebrations/Weddings features are being incorporated into a bigger Sunday Living section.