By: E&P Staff Nancy Raffensperger Newhoff has been appointed editor of The Courier in Waterloo, Iowa.
Newhoff, 50, is promoted from managing editor, a post she has held since 1995. She is the first woman in the Courier?s 148-year history to hold the top position in the newsroom.
A longtime staffer, Newhoff has been with the Courier for 28 years, having joined the newsroom in 1979 after graduating from the University of Iowa. She has served as city editor, assistant city editor, and managing editor, and before that she was a police and courts reporter ? and earned numerous state writing and reporting awards for her work.
In 2001 Newhoff won an Iowa Associated Press Managing Editors award for column writing, and the following year she was named master columnist by the Iowa Newspaper Association.
She is married to Courier Sports Editor Doug Newhoff; the couple will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary next year.
Newhoff succeeds Saul Shapiro, who in May accepted a position at Wartburg College in Waverly after 24 years at the paper.
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