Changes at SGVN

The San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group - the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News - has fused together its weeklies and special section staffs to create what is called "custom publications" and promoted Pia Orense to oversee them. Here's the memo:

I am pleased to announce the promotion of Pia Orense to editor of custom publications for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. As part of this move, we are combining the staffs of our weeklies and special sections into a single unit that will be responsible for all non-core and internet products. Over the course of the next several months, Pia will lead an effort to determine how best that unit can operate to produce our existing publications and create opportunities to launch others. She will also work closely with our ICPG unit in San Bernardino.

Please join me in congratulating Pia on her new role.