Staff REPORT
The Sumter Item has not too long ago welcomed a handful of faces to its newsroom and customer service division that are a blend of new hires and returning workforce or ended up promoted.
Jill Burrus was promoted, officially this week, from her role in client provider to the department’s supervisor, filling the position remaining open with Kathy Stafford’s retirement after 25 yrs with the newspaper. To fill her shopper assistance posture, The Product welcomed Future Hester.
Burrus is now in cost of the division that allows audience with account challenges, monthly bill payment and other inquiries or worries about the newspaper and its digital platforms. Hester will aid subject consumer phone calls.
Burrus is a native New Yorker who has slowly but surely designed her way down the East Coast all through the previous 20 decades with her spouse, Warren, and two teenaged daughters, Taylor and Logan. Immediately after graduating with a journalism degree from Hofstra College, she found herself in the condominium and household property administration business – a thing she fell into and loved.
She joined The Item with decades of buyer support expertise. In her off time, she enjoys shelling out time with her menagerie of furry pets and household and sending innocent houseplants to an early demise.
Hester was elevated in Sumter and is a Sumter Superior University graduate. She been given her Bachelor of Science in Business enterprise Administration from the Higher education of Charleston this calendar year and has now returned to her hometown.
In her spare time, she enjoys looking at shows on Netflix, touring and paying out time with her pals and household.
Two additions to the newsroom have recently been built, as viewers have in all probability presently famous by the new bylines observed on its pages.
The two journalists, Ashley Miller joins The Item as a news reporter, and Isaiah Lucas joins as a sports activities reporter.
Miller was born in Lancaster and attained her Bachelor’s Diploma in Journalism from the College of South Carolina in Columbia. She claims she has always been a reporter at coronary heart, looking at her grandparents go through the every day newspaper, reading through the comics and then getting to be associated at her high college newspaper. In college, she realized she could merge her passions of crime and journalism. Ahead of USC, she attended Kent State University and worked on the university’s magazine, Fusion.
On returning to South Carolina, she set her expertise of editing and writing to the test as a reporter for USC’s Carolina Information and Reporter all-digital media outlet.
Her love of speaking to men and women, likely sites and putting a tale alongside one another is what retains her composed. Immediately after a extensive working day of reporting, you can come across her at property, with her dog in her lap and a movie actively playing, by now arranging out the times forward.
In her purpose at The Merchandise, Miller covers Clarendon County and common group coverage.
Lucas is a North Carolina indigenous who just lately graduated from the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with his Bachelor’s Diploma in Conversation Reports. In higher education, he was a athletics reporter for the school’s college student newspaper, The Day by day Tar Heel, and also labored as a conquer crafting assistant for Within Carolina.
When he isn’t functioning, Lucas enjoys taking part in sports activities as perfectly as attending sporting functions, concerts and music festivals.
He joins The Item’s sports department and will enable acquire its social media technique as nicely as grow sponsored content and contests and assistance maintain gatherings such as the impending Media Working day in addition to reporting.
Amongst the new faces is a acquainted just one The Item not long ago welcomed again.
Cary Howard returned to the Item’s graphics office, in which she worked for 13 many years just before a couple of-calendar year stint at Hodge Units and Consulting Expert services. She enjoyed that position but realized her genuine enthusiasm is graphic design and style, in which she is now creating advertisements for consumers and encouraging with other particular solutions at The Product as effectively as developing the newspaper and adverts for the Lexington County Chronicle, a sister newspaper to The Sumter Merchandise situated in Lexington.
In her totally free time, Howard enjoys paying out time with her husband and their two beagles, bingeing Netflix, heading to car satisfies and functioning on their Mustangs.
To achieve Burrus, email [email protected] or contact (803) 774-1212.
To achieve Hester, email [email protected] or connect with (803) 774-1258.
To attain Miller, email [email protected] or phone (803) 774-1227.
To access Lucas, phone [email protected] or call (803) 774-1200.
To attain Howard, simply call [email protected] or get in touch with (803) 774-1285.
Uncover personnel bios and a lot more get hold of facts at www.theitem.com/speak to.
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