Kevin Passon, a longtime Wisconsin journalist and Shawano native, has been named editor-in-chief for NEW Media, a newspaper group that includes the Shawano Leader, Oconto County Times Herald and Wittenberg Enterprise and Birnamwood News.
Most recently, Passon served as editor of the Antigo Journal, a position he’d held since 2020.
He began his newspaper career in 1987 as a freelance writer with the Waupun Leader News, where he became editor two years later. He went on to serve as editor of the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen and the Oconomowoc Enterprise, where he was eventually promoted to publisher — a position he held until 2011. During this time, he was twice elected to the WNA Board of Directors.
Passon left the newspaper industry in 2011, returning in 2014 to work as an editor for Adams Publishing Group in the Monona and McFarland area before moving on to Antigo.
Passon succeeds interim editor, Warren Bluhm, who has held the position since March 2021. Bluhm will return to his previous duties as news editor, which includes coverage of Oconto County.
