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George Stanley, who was business editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and then business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is retiring from the paper, where he had been editor in chief.

Corinne Hess of the Journal Sentinel writes, “During his announcement to staff, Stanley, 65, said he made his decision after the Journal Sentinel’s parent company, Gannett, announced last month it would make additional cuts company-wide.

“Devi Shastri, health and medicine reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and president of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild, said Stanley worked to preserve journalism in Milwaukee and Wisconsin throughout his career.

“‘He tried to save jobs and find creative solutions in partnership with us,’ Shastri said. ‘Throughout his career, his focus has been supporting his employees, professionally and personally. His leadership will be missed.’”

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The success of CNBC’s Business Day programming begins and ends with strong, optimistic leadership across our newsroom. In an effort to continue to develop fresh, content ideas in new places and offer growth opportunities to our colleagues, we are excited to announce the following re-assignments and promotions among our producer ranks:

Anne Tironi has been named Senior Executive Producer in charge of “Squawk Box.” A confident and firm leader, Anne has had a significant and positive impact on this iconic program for more than 16 years with much of it coming from her steady hand in the control room. A tremendous collaborator and communicator, Anne is one of the few leaders who is adept at managing both content and people equally well.

Rebecca White

Semafor climate and energy editor Bill Spindle has left the news startup due to concerns about Chevron advertising around his content, reports Loree Seitz of The Wrap.

Seitz reports, “‘I’m not saying they or Chevron improperly influenced the climate coverage. I could ‘call it as I saw it,” Spindle posted on Twitter. ‘What concerned me was my belief that it was not appropriate to have Chevron advertising on the same page as stories on climate coverage, particularly as the dominant advertiser.’

“Spindle’s exit comes just six weeks after the launch of the digital media company ‘based on journalistic transparency’ in October under the leadership of former New York Times media reporter Ben Smith and former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith.

“After sharing his concerns with the publication’s leadership, Spindle notes that Semafor removed the Chevron advertisements from his emailed climate newsletter, but the Chevron ads never left his stories,

Maggie Leung — most recently executive editor at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and founding vice president of content at NerdWallet — is joining ClickUp as vice president of content and organic growth in January.

ClickUp is a productivity platform that serves teams. It integrates a variety of workplace tools — including project management, document collaboration, spreadsheets, goals, time-tracking and chat — in one place. Its enterprise users include Google, McDonald’s and Netflix.

The startup has raised $535 million, at a valuation of $4 billion. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, where Leung has been executive editor of Future.com. The site served startup builders and others in the tech community.

Leung said: “I learned a good deal at a16z, but I really missed startup work. And it was easy for me to get behind ClickUp, because robust tools help teams collaborate more effectively and creatively around the world and across

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Washington Post Opinion Editor David Shipley named new leaders in the opinion section, promoting and introducing key roles helping to drive the evolution of one of the industry’s most innovative opinions departments.

The opinion section will now have four deputy opinion editors with new or expanded responsibilities.

Karen Tumulty, deputy opinion editor and columnist, will continue to steer the Editorial Board. Before joining Opinions, Tumulty was a national political correspondent and earned the 2014 Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.

 

Mary Duenwald and David Von Drehle will lead the editors and columnists. Duenwald joined The Post Opinions section in October as a senior editor from Bloomberg, where she oversaw the section’s U.S.-based columnists and editors. Before joining Bloomberg in 2011, she was the Deputy Op-Ed page editor at The New York Times.

Von Drehle has