Modesto Bee Names New Opinion Editor

Mike Dunbar has been named Opinions editor of The Modesto Bee and modbee.com, replacing Judy Sly, who has retired.

Dunbar, who currently is director of integrated operations, is intimately familiar with the Opinions pages, having worked closely with Sly as her associate editor from 2003 to 2008. That five years represented “the best job I ever had” in a journalism career spanning 38 years, he said. “It’s the most fun, the most challenging and the most rewarding.”