South Carolina Press Association elects new leader

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (AP) — Susan Rowell, publisher of The Lancaster News, has been elected president of the South Carolina Press Association.

Rowell was selected Saturday at the association’s winter meeting in Columbia. She started her career at The Lancaster News in advertising in 1985, rising through the ranks to publisher in 2002.

Jack Osteen, publisher of The Item in Sumter, and Morrey Thomas, publisher of The News and Press in Darlington were elected vice presidents. Judith Mundy Burns, publisher of the Index-Journal in Greenwood, was elected treasurer.

Three people were selected to two-year terms on the association’s executive committee: Debbie Abels, publisher of The Herald in Rock Hill, Tom Clifford, executive news director of The Post and Courier in Charleston, and Mike Smith, executive editor of the Herald-Journal in Spartanburg.