By Sonya FastCalMatters
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John D’Anna joins CalMatters as managing editor in the course of the information group’s tenth anniversary 12 months.
He was most lately managing editor at The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, directing nationally award-winning initiatives on wildfire restoration, dying with dignity, clear vitality and authorities corruption.
D’Anna succeeds Vicki Haddock, who joined CalMatters in its second 12 months, 2016, and was CalMatters’ first managing editor. Haddock stepped right down to spend extra time with household, however she’s going to proceed to information CalMatters in an advisory position.
D’Anna will direct CalMatters’ award-winning crew of journalists, working day-to-day operations whereas working immediately with 5 project editors and different leaders throughout CalMatters.
“John has an impressive track record as a newsroom leader and journalist, but even more striking is his demonstrated commitment to serve the community with powerful storytelling,” stated CalMatters Editor-in-Chief Kristen Go.
D’Anna beforehand labored on the Arizona Republic. As web page one editor, D’Anna ran the publication’s entrance web page and he oversaw the print presentation of their Pulitzer Prize-winning border wall sequence. He was additionally a key member of two Pulitzer finalist groups: masking the capturing of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others in Tucson, and the Yarnell Hill Fireplace which killed 19 wildland firefighters.
As a senior reporter throughout quite a lot of beats, D’Anna solved the 87-year-old thriller of Arizona’s Hatbox Child, uncovered racism in Arizona’s historic territorial capital and received a nationwide APSE investigative reporting award for exposing the selective prosecution of an African-American youth in a highschool soccer hazing scandal.
He was founding editor of the Republic’s first group newspaper, the Scottsdale Republic, and directed nationally award-winning investigative journalism stemming from the publication.
In 2016, D’Anna fought a subpoena of his notes in a press-freedom case that went to the Arizona Supreme Courtroom and resulted in important authorized protections for Arizona journalists.
D’Anna taught at Arizona State College’s Walter Cronkite College of Journalism for 16 years, together with a graduate seminar on the way forward for journalism and visitor lectures on First Modification and public data points.
He has an MBA from Benedictine College Mesa, and a bachelor’s diploma in journalism with a minor in political science from the College of Arizona. D’Anna can be a fifth-degree black belt and three-time world champion in taekwondo.
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