Greg Pearson is back in the leadership ranks of the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild.
The Guild’s Executive Board has named Pearson, the local’s former president, as a steward leader.
Pearson, a Journal Sentinel copy editor who served most recently as a steward, now oversees stewards, contract enforcement, membership and mobilizing for the sports, features/entertainment and opinions staffs. He replaces metro reporter Tom Held, who left in the buyout.
The board reappointed the other two steward leaders: copy editor Russ Maki, to a fourth term serving the copy, design, graphics and national desks and the photo and JSOnline staffs, and business reporter Tom Content, to a second term serving the downtown metro and business news desks and Wisconsin news bureaus.
Other new appointments include PolitiFact Wisconsin reporter Dave Umhoefer as wage data coordinator, succeeding deputy business editor Bob Helbig, who left in the buyout; metro reporter Mike Johnson as benefits coordinator, succeeding business reporter Kathleen Gallagher; copy editor John Schumacher as health and safety coordinator, succeeding Umhoefer; and JSOnline producer Jenn Amur as human rights coordinator, a previously vacant position. Schumacher is also a board member.
Reappointed were page designer Zeina Makky as communications chair, feature writer Jan Uebelherr as social chair, metro reporter Amy Rabideau Silvers as good and welfare chair, copy editor Jen Steele as newsletter editor, online producer Craig Nickels as Webmaster, metro reporter Larry Sandler as posting and exclusions coordinator and assistant features/entertainment editor Stan Miller as tech coordinator. Uebelherr and Makky are also board members.
All of those appointed will serve one-year terms, until next October. The steward leaders and Vice Presidents Mary-Liz Shaw and Karen Samelson are now selecting stewards.