Brandon Reid, who has served as editor of the (Manitowoc) Herald Times Reporter since 2015, has been named editor of the The (Fond du Lac) Reporter and Oshkosh Northwestern, the newspapers announced last week. Reid, who was named editor of The Sheboygan Press in September 2021, will now oversee newsrooms in Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Manitowoc and Sheboygan.
The move is part of Gannett’s recently launched Center for Community Journalism, focused on supporting small and mid-sized newsrooms and providing hyper-local, high-impact stories, according to the announcement.
He succeeds Katy Macek as editor fo the Reporter and Northwestern. Macek is moving to a regional editing position at The (Appleton) Post-Crescent.
Before being named editor of Gannett’s Manitowoc newsroom in 2015, Reid served as a content coach for watchdog reporters across the USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin and as editor of The Rock River Times in Rockford, Illinois, for 12 years.
