BELOIT — After more than 40 years with the newspaper, Bill Barth is leaving his role as editor of the Beloit Daily News next week.
The Daily News announced the change Sunday. Barth’s last day at the newspaper will be Friday, Nov. 20.
Inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2016, Barth’s journalism career began at the Times-Courier in Charleston, Ill. He joined the Daily News in 1976 and has been editor since 1994. Barth also has worked extensively over the years on WNA legislative efforts.
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Barth departs amid a restructuring of Adams Publishing Group’s news operations in southern Wisconsin. Sid Schwartz, longtime editor of The Gazette in Janesville, will now oversee newsrooms in both Janesville and Beloit in his role as regional editor for APG Media of Southern Wisconsin.
Schwartz, who earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from UW-Eau Claire in 1984, worked for the Daily News as a reporter from March 1986 until December 1990. He left Beloit for a reporting job at The Gazette, where he later became local news editor in 2006 and editor in 2015.
