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The Chicago Tribune will ring in its first new managing editor in three decades; George de Lama, managing editor for 30 years, or what he calls “two lifetimes’ worth of adventures,” is moving on.
Hanke Gratteau, currently deputy managing editor for news, will succeed de Lama, writes Reuters.
“The Tribune gave this immigrants’ kid from Uptown the world, literally, and I’ll be forever grateful,” de Lama wrote in a memo to staff (via the Chicago Tribune). “The paper sent me off on my first foreign assignment at 23 and let me roam far and wide, writing home to tell of what I saw along the way…. I had two lifetimes’ worth of adventures, all from a privileged front-row seat to history.”
De Lama says that Hanke is “more than ready” to step up to the job of managing editor, along with Jim Warren, managing editor for features, and editor Ann Marie Lipinski.
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