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Patricia O’Brien, writing under the pen name “Kate Alcott,” authored a novel “A Touch of Stardust,” which was published by Doubleday in February. The book peeks behind the scenes of…

Masha Gessen’s “The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy,” about the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of orchestrating the bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line in 2013, will be published…

Charles Onyango-Obbo launched a Pan-African news site last May. The site, called Mail & Guardian Africa, seeks to bring a “deeper understanding to Africa’s possibilities and difficulties today … give voice to…

Dimitri Mitropoulos took over the helm of the Greek daily newspaper Ta Nea in May 2014. As executive editor, Mitropoulos manages 120 journalists. He was previously a political commentator with…

Joe O’Connor is the new president and general manager of WFAE, a Charlotte, North Carolina NPR news station. O’Connor previously spent eight years as general manager at Rhode Island Public…

Susie Banikarim has been named vice president of content strategy and audience engagement at Vocativ, a media start-up that seeks to tell original stories using the untapped troves of the…

Laura Wides-Muñoz joined Fusion in January as director of news practices. She had spent the previous eight years working as a reporter in the Miami bureau of the Associated Press. She is…

Dan Vergano has moved to BuzzFeed News, where he is a science reporter based in the media company’s Washington, D.C. bureau. He is covering science politics and policy. Vergano previously…

Craig Welch has left The Seattle Times for National Geographic, where he is continuing to report on the environment.

Kalpana Jain is senior education editor at The Conversation US, a nonprofit website that launched last fall to offer news and views from the academic and research community. She works…