Evansville Paper Hires Stewart -- Editor of 'Akron Beacon Journal'

By: The Evansville Courier and Press has announced that the editor of the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio will become the paper's editor.

42-year-old Mizell Stewart the third will succeed J. Bruce Baumann -- who retired as editor on March 30.

Stewart's appointment is effective June 1st. Bruce Winges will succeed Stewart in the Akron newsroom.

The Akron paper has a weekday circulation of about 134,000. The Courier and Press has a circulation of about 70,000.