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BALTIMORE Paul M. Moore will return to The (Baltimore) Sun's newsroom as deputy managing editor for operations, Publisher Tim Ryan announced.

The veteran Sun editor has spent nearly four years as the liaison between readers and the paper's staff.

Ryan said in a statement another public editor will not be hired to replace Moore. Moore's Sunday column, which looked at the public's perception of the paper, will be discontinued, but a new interactive blog will be established on the newspaper's Web site for readers to contact Sun journalists.

In his new position, Moore will be in charge of the daily newspaper's production and supervise the photography department and news, copy and design desks.

Moore was a deputy managing editor at The Sun from 2000 until taking the public editor post in 2004. He came to The Sun in 1996 as an assistant managing editor after spending 14 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Sun is owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co.