John Leacock, who started his career in 1994 with a weekly newspaper in Wisconsin, has been named interim business editor for the Albuquerque Journal, where he has served as a copy editor since October.
Born in Barbados, Leacock attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx, N.Y., and Columbia College in New York as a Regents Scholar.
After graduation, he moved to Wisconsin, where he worked as an editor for Point Publications in Stevens Point and as a reporter for the Central Wisconsin Radio Network and Wisconsin Public Radio. In 1999, he joined the Wisconsin State Journal as a copy editor. He went on to serve as interim national foreign editor and, in 2002, he was promoted to assistant news editor. He went on to spend the majority of his career at the Florida Times-Union, where he worked as a metro night editor and copy editor.
