Three Tribune-Review editors have been promoted, Editor Frank Craig said today.
James Cuddy Jr. was promoted to managing editor for news, from senior deputy managing editor.
Cuddy, along with longtime managing editor Bob Fryer, will oversee news operations for the newspaper's daily editions in Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Tarentum, Connellsville, Kittanning, Monessen and McKeesport, as well as its suburban and regional weekly editions.
Fryer will focus on the newspaper's enterprise and investigative reporting.
Sandra Tolliver, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's metro editor, was promoted to deputy managing editor, overseeing the metro and business desks, the afternoon daily Trib PM, and the Gateway suburban weekly editions.
David Conti was promoted to metro editor, from assistant metro editor. He will oversee the Pittsburgh newsroom's metro desk.
Rick Monti remains senior deputy managing editor, overseeing suburban dailies and regional weeklies and adding oversight of all of the newspapers' sports coverage.
"Trib Total Media's newspapers are fortunate to have excellent editors," Craig said of the promotions. "They, along with our reporting, photography, copy-editing, design and graphic arts staffs, have made these papers successful in the past decade.
"They are among the reasons why our combined circulation has continued to grow at a time when most American newspapers are shrinking or even closing."
He said the promotions will further improve the papers' news coverage, and particularly their attention to investigative journalism.
Cuddy, 55, became senior deputy managing editor in 1999, overseeing coverage of news, business, sports and features in the Pittsburgh Trib. He previously served as city editor, projects editor and reporter.
He joined the newspaper in 1993 after more than a dozen years at The Pittsburgh Press. Cuddy, a 1977 graduate of Penn State University, lives in Mt. Lebanon with his wife, Rosemarie.
Tolliver, 52, a native of Bethany, W.Va., joined the Trib in 2004 as a general assignment reporter and became metro editor the following year. She began her journalism career in 1976 in Wheeling, W.Va, as a newspaper reporter, and then worked in television news and for United Press International. Before joining the Trib she worked in government and corporate public relations.
She and her husband, Bill, live in Upper St. Clair.
Conti, 37, a native of Abington near Philadelphia, joined the Trib in 1996 after attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He worked in various roles before joining the newspaper's metro desk as a reporter in 1999.
He covered crime, courts and other beats before becoming an assistant metro editor in 2007.
He lives in the Brighton Heights section of the North Side with his wife, Alyson Walls.
