Leroy Chapman, Jr. will be the first Black editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the paper's 155-year history.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named its first Black editor-in-chief in the paper's 155-year history.his retirement yesterday, and the paper has named managing editor Leroy Chapman, Jr. as Riley's successor.
Riley will become an editor-at-large after 12 years at the helm of the AJC—the longest tenure for a current lead editor of any major metropolitan paper.Chapman has been with the paper since 2011 and in journalism for nearly three decades. The Navy veteran came to Atlanta from The State newspaper in South Carolina where he worked as governance editor.
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