Charles Apple

Kris Viesselman announced via Twitter late Monday night:

It’s official. I’m moving back to California to be Managing Editor + Creative Director at the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Kris tells us:

I’ll be working remotely from Washington starting next week. Then, I’ll move to San Diego at the start of June.

My first task will be to lead the redesign and page-size reduction of the print edition. We’re planning on a real redesign. We’ll rethink coverage priorities, sectioning and storytelling approaches.

We’ll also be reconsidering the structure of the newsroom to support effective, high-impact multi-platform publishing.

Kris was on the swim team and was a Presidential Fellow at Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, from which she graduated in 1988. She served internships at The Arizona Republic and The Sacramento Bee before signing on as a news artist and then a designer at the Bee. She left in 1993 to become art director for the Valley and Orange County editions of The Los Angeles Times.

In 1998, she leaped to The Orange County Register as senior art director and then moved again to The San Jose Mercury News as creative director in 2003.

In 2005, Kris became director of digital product development for National Geographic Maps in Washington, D.C. She’s currently the president of the Society for News Design.

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