After a 15-year journalism career, Lake Geneva Regional News editor Stephanie Jones is leaving the field to become a teacher, she announced in a column Wednesday.
A 2007 graduate from UW-Milwaukee, Jones interned at the Green Bay Press-Gazette before joining The (Racine) Journal Times as a reporter. She was named managing editor of the Times in 2016 and became editor of its sister paper, the Regional News, in 2020. She also served as a member of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board’s first reader advisory committee.
“Now after 15 years in journalism, I’m hanging up my press pass and transitioning to my next career in life – becoming an English teacher,” Jones wrote in her farewell column. “I’m starting with subbing in East Troy where my three daughters (ages 4, 8 and 10) attend school, and then I’m going back to school to get my education degree.”
Jones wrote she was excited to see how Travis Devlin, who was recently appointed local news editor, helps shape the newspaper.
