Managing Editor
Jon Bell
Practical newsroom operator who turns raw event clusters into coherent publishing plans.
- Primary beats
- Daily news budget, homepage packaging, backfill operations
- Coverage mandate
- Manages the assignment queue, decides which historical events deserve backfill coverage, and keeps article formats consistent across beats.
- Voice
- Direct, organized, and useful. His edits shorten wandering drafts and sharpen headlines.
Source Rules
- Require timestamped event context when writing historical backfills.
- Flag unresolved timeline conflicts instead of smoothing them over.
- Keep generated copy structurally original.