Pilot’s Cahn, Meier promoted to new spots
COSTA MESA -- Returning the newsroom to a more traditional
management structure, Daily Pilot Editor Tony Dodero on Tuesday announced
two promotions at the paper. Senior City Editor S.J. Cahn was named
managing editor, and Assistant City Editor James Meier will take over
day-to-day supervision of the reporting staff as city editor.
As managing editor, Cahn will oversee the reporting, features and
photo desks at the paper. He joined the paper as city editor nearly three
years ago, weeks before a man drove onto a Costa Mesa playground, killing
two children. The Pilot won a statewide award for its coverage of the
tragedy.
“S.J. has proven himself to be a valuable and knowledgeable member of
the news team here, and this move will solidify that,” Dodero said.
Cahn, a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, also will be
managing editor of the Pilot’s sister paper, the Huntington Beach
Independent. He worked as a reporter in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington Bureau and as a copy editor at the Kansas City Star before
joining Times Community News in August 1998.
Meier joined the Pilot a year ago and immediately helped expand its
Community Forum pages. He previously worked at the Tustin Weekly and as a
community news reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He was a reporter at
the Gurnee Sun in Illinois before joining the Pilot.
“James has been a great addition to our city desk over the past year,”
Dodero said.
Meier is a graduate of Cal State Fullerton’s communication program.
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