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.