Prize-winning journalist named Plain Dealer editor

CLEVELAND (AP) — A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of The Dallas Morning News has been named editor of The Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland.

Plain Dealer owner Advance Publications Inc. announced the appointment Monday of 58-year-old George Rodrigue.

Rodrigue was a longtime managing editor of The Dallas Morning News and most recently was assistant news director at WFAA-TV in Dallas.

He won two Pulitzers for his reporting at The Dallas Morning News, and the newspaper won a third under his direction. Rodrigue also was vice president of the Washington bureau for Belo Corp.’s newspapers.

He succeeds Debra Adams Simmons who became vice president of news development for Advance Local.