A New ME for 'The Courier' in Russellville, Ark.

By: E&P Staff Sonya Campbell has been named managing editor of The Courier in Russellville, Ark.

Campbell comes to the paper from the weekly Bryan County News in Richmond Hill, Ga., where she was editor. Before that, she served as managing editor.

The Courier's new managing editor began her newspaper career in 1991 as an advertising sales representative and then sales manager for the Mid County Chronicle in Nederland, Texas. She later applied and was hired as a general assignment reporter/photographer for the paper.

Campbell then worked for the Hardin County News in Lumberton, Texas, where she was a reporter/photographer for nine months before she was named managing editor. In 1999, she moved to Georgia and took a job as a reporter at the Coastal Courier, a tri-weekly in Hinesville, before she worked for the Bryan County News.