Paper promotes Harris to managing editor post Longtime NEWS employee assumes job on Jan. 2

BANGOR – Julie Murchison Harris, a 22-year newsroom employee at the Bangor Daily News, has been promoted to managing editor effective Jan. 2.

In announcing the promotion Friday, Executive Editor Mark Woodward said Harris will supervise the day-to-day operations in the newsroom and report to him. Woodward oversees the entire department, focusing on management, budgets and community outreach.

“The promotion affirms what her colleagues already know,” Woodward said. “Julie is a talented and dedicated journalist. She is successfully engaged in every facet of the newsroom.”

Harris started at the NEWS in 1979 as an editorial department intern. During the past 22 years, she has worked as a reporter, layout person and assistant editor on the State Desk. After the State Desk was reorganized, she served as an assignment editor for city, court, police, Mid-Maine and political coverage.

Most recently, Harris was one of two news editors, leading daily meetings, coordinating special news projects, and participating in strategic planning sessions.

“I look forward to working with the newsroom and Mark in this new capacity,” Harris said. “We have a great staff dedicated to their daily mission of producing a quality newspaper. It’ll be an honor to work with them as managing editor.”

She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., for two years, with concentrations in English literature and American studies. In 1990, she earned a bachelor’s degree in botany from the University of Maine.