Rosemary Goudreau, a prize-winning reporter and an innovative editor, was named managing editor of the Enquirer on Tuesday.
Ms. Goudreau, former deputy editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will start her new position June 22, Editor Lawrence K. Beaupre said. She succeeds Janet Leach, who became editor of the Akron Beacon Journal in February.
The managing editor is the No. 2 position in the newsroom, with supervision over daily news gathering, operations and planning. "Rosemary Goudreau is an outstanding editor who was also an outstanding reporter," Mr. Beaupre said. "She has a great news background and has been a catalyst for change and improvement at her previous newspapers. She is exactly the right person to help lead the Enquirer to new levels of excellence."
Ms. Goudreau, 42, was deputy editor in St. Louis for a year, responsible for strategy and staff capacity. She helped lead several newsroom efforts to better focus the news reports on the front page and in the metro, sports and business sections. She also led a newspaper-wide strategic research initiative.
She served as deputy managing editor of the Virginian- Pilot in Norfolk, Va., from 1994 to 1997. She was assistant news editor in the Washington bureau of Knight Ridder Newspapers from 1991 to 1994 and an assistant city editor at the Miami Herald from 1986 to 1991.
She began her career in 1976 as higher education reporter at the Tampa Tribune. In 1981 she moved to the Orlando Sentinel as medical writer.
Her journalism awards include the 1986 IRE Gold Medal of the Investigative Reporters and Editors, a national association; a George Polk Award for Regional Reporting; and the Silver Gavel Award of the Florida Bar Association.
She is a 1976 graduate of the University of Florida. She held a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 1989-90.
