After 19 years with the Herald, Managing Editor Matt Cory has accepted a job as editor of the Bemidji Pioneer.
Cory will start his new job in mid-April. He replaces Steve Wagner, who was named editor of the Herald earlier this month.
He said he was taking over the Pioneer as newspapers are changing but retaining their importance in communities.
"We have to be a lot of different things to different people," Cory said. "You want to cover the big stories but you want to tell the stories of individual people within the community as well."
Cory, 42, has held several jobs at the Herald, including reporting on business and sports and working as copy editor, night editor and city editor.
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"We are fortunate to hire an editor of Matt Cory's skills and experience," said Pioneer Publisher Dennis Doeden. "Matt has a passion for newspapers, and I am excited to add him to our leadership team in Bemidji. Matt brings experience as a reporter, editor, page designer and manager to our newsroom. He understands the newspaper's responsibility in our community."
Changes in the news industry and readers' expectations already reshaping how newspapers deliver news, Cory said.
"Newspapers will always be a vital link in the process of communication," he said. "I've heard the saying that radio had the immediacy, television had the video and newspapers had the whole story. Well, now we have to do all three. And that's a challenge we have to face every day."
Cory is an East Grand Forks native and a UND alumnus.
"It's kind of like coming home for me in a way," he said. "I'm excited about being back in Minnesota full-time."
The Herald and the Pioneer are both owned by Forum Communications Co.
