Musical chairs continues
Some personnel announcements: Mike Kernels, who has been a features writer for us for two years, has been "promoted" to assistant features editor. (I put promoted in quotations because it is arguable that attaching editor to your title is a promotion.)
Mike is taking Sally Buffalo's place. Before he came to Greensboro, Mike worked at Port Folio Weekly magazine in Virginia Beach and for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. Between the Virginia and N.C. press association contests, he's won a total of 16 awards since 1998. My only regret is that we lose him as a writer.
And some more musical chairs: I've told you about Eric Dyer, our Raleigh reporter for five years, moving to Greensboro, and Mark Binker, our Guilford County reporter, taking Eric's place in Raleigh.
Now we are going to move Nate DeGraff, a business reporter for the past year, to cover Guilford County. Covering the commissioners is like watching pro wrestlin': you don't know where the show ends and the wrestling starts. But Nate covered government with the Burlington Times-News before he came to us so he'll do fine.