Herald News Today is published by Joseph Baldwin and edited by Judy Ward. The senior editorial staff are listed below.
Joseph is the publisher of Herald News Today, working from New Orleans. His background is in media and business operations, and he holds responsibility for the site's overall direction, financial sustainability, and the independence of the editorial operation from the commercial side of the site. He leaves the day-to-day editorial decisions to the newsroom and writes an occasional column on the business of journalism.
Judy leads the newsroom from Augusta, Georgia. Her career spans more than fifteen years in editorial leadership at regional and national publications, with a background that includes reporting on politics, state government, and federal courts before she moved into editing. She sets the standards for what runs on the site, oversees the corrections record, and is the final authority on questions of what Herald News Today will and will not publish.
Craig manages the day-to-day operations of the newsroom from Colorado Springs. He came to the publication after twelve years at a Mountain-region daily, where he rose from city desk reporter to assistant managing editor with stops on the politics and copy desks. He is responsible for the editorial calendar, story assignments, and the flow of publication across the desks.
Maria runs the business and economy desk from San Jose. Her reporting career includes more than a decade covering business, finance, and labor at regional daily newspapers and a national business publication. She is the editor most likely to reach for the underlying numbers on a story and the one who insists on distinguishing what a company has actually announced from what its press release wants readers to think it announced.
Howard oversees the publication's standards program from Toledo. He handles fact-checking on sensitive material, manages the corrections record, and serves as the point of contact for readers and named subjects who identify errors in published pieces. His background is on copy desks and in fact-checking at regional daily newspapers, and he is the in-house authority on the publication's stylebook.
Virginia edits the features section from Honolulu. Her career includes more than a decade of feature writing and editing at national publications and regional newspapers, with a particular interest in food, travel, and the everyday economics of American households. She is the editor who reaches for the narrative angle on a story that could otherwise run straight, and she is responsible for a substantial share of the long-form work published on the site.
We welcome reported features, analysis, and first-person essays from writers with real expertise and a fresh angle.