Jana Collier
DAYTON — Jana Collier has been promoted to editor-in-chief of Cox Media Group Ohio’s newspapers and websites, effective immediately.
She is the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of Cox Media Group Ohio, including the first editor-in-chief of the Dayton Daily News in its 113-year history.
The Texas native, 46, most recently served as managing editor of the Dayton Daily News. She joined the newspaper in 2001 as features editor, and began working for Cox in 1988 at its Waco, Texas, newspaper.
Collier succeeds Kevin Riley, who in December was named editor of the Cox-owned Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Readers of CMG Ohio’s newspapers — which include the Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun, Hamilton JournalNews, Middletown Journal and several weekly newspapers and websites — will see a greater emphasis on investigative reporting, including a regional watchdog team focused on government waste, Collier said.
Collier said that as a result of research on reader preference, “I think we’re really in a fantastic position” as a media company.
The announcement comes on the heels of Friday’s news that Julia Wallace, a longtime editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and CMG Ohio’s senior vice president of news and programming since January, has been named head of Cox Media Group Ohio, succeeding Alex Taylor.
Collier said she will work closely with David Bennallack, WHIO-TV’s news director, and Nick Roberts, programming director for radio in CMG’s Dayton and Louisville markets.
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