Alamogordo Daily News Names New Managing Editor

Veteran newspaperman Duane Barbati has been named the new managing editor of the Alamogordo Daily News.

Barbati, a native of the Detroit area who has been with the newspaper since October 2008 as the organization's crime and political reporter, will replace Michael Johnson, who is leaving to become editor of three daily newspapers in Ohio and West Virginia with Civitas Media, a new company based in Davidson, N.C.