'Riverdale Press' Gets New Editor

The Riverdale Press, Bronx, N.Y., has promoted Associate Editor Kate Pastor, 31, to editor.

After growing up reading the Press, Pastor joined its newsroom in 2008, first as a general-assignment reporter, then moving to education reporter, political reporter and associate editor. But before choosing journalism as a profession, she studied economic development in Uganda and worked in the public-health field with non-governmental organizations.

While at City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism, Pastor studied under Bernard L. Stein, Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor and co-publisher of Tthe Press. While at CUNY she interned at AM New York and City Limits, where she later worked as a freelancer.

Pastor, who won a Suburban Newspaper Association award for her coverage of last year's bitter strike at the Stella D'oro bakery, plans to offer more features at www.riverdalepress.com and add a level of interactivity to the site.