'The State' in Columbia Names New M.E.

By: The State in Columbia has named deputy managing editor Steve Brook as the paper's new managing editor.

The paper reported Friday that Brook would succeed Tonnya Kennedy Kohn, who left last summer to attend law school.

Brook started his career at The State in 1991 as executive business editor and has served as deputy managing editor since 2005. He helped create Lake Murray Magazine and cbj, the newspaper's monthly business magazine.

The 54-year-old Brook previously worked as reporter and editor at The Telegraph in Macon, Ga., and was a business reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press.