Promotions, new hires and other personnel news from Texas newspapers.

ROY KENT, Kerrville Daily Times

KERRVILLE – Roy Kent is the new managing editor at the Kerrville Daily Times.

The appointment was announced by Publisher Jennifer McCullough, who said Kent’s experience will be an asset to the local newspaper and the community it serves.

HOUSTON – Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran editor Kelly Ann Scott is the new executive editor for the Houston Chronicle.

AUSTIN – Bill Girdner, the editor of Courthouse News Service, who has worked to require timely news media access to court filings in Texas and across the nation, was honored with the 2023 James Madison Award by the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.

A joint convention of the South Texas Press and Texas Gulf Coast Press associations is on the calendar for April 18-20, 2024.

The two associations approved the move at their meetings last spring as a means of decreasing costs for each association and their member newspapers, as well as increasing attendance.

TAYLOR — A veteran advertising leader has joined Granite Media Partners Inc. as the new vice president of sales and marketing.

Shawn Burrell, a Texas native, started Sept. 5 and will be based at the 45-year-old company’s home office near Austin.

Fair warning: Get ready for some major geekage.

We’ve all seen the embarrassing example of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-produced copy in a recent large company sports section. This is what was published (since corrected):

“The Worthington Christian [[WINNING_TEAM_MASCOT]] defeated the Westerville North [[LOSING_TEAM_MASCOT]] 2-1 in an Ohio boys soccer game on Saturday.”