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Des Moines Register names new executive editor

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Carol Hunter, an award-winning editor with a passion for watchdog and political journalism, today was named executive editor of The Des Moines Register and a regional editor for seven other news organizations in Gannett’s Plains region, the Register reported. Hunter has worked at the Register for 12 years, most recently as its news director. She is the newspaper’s 12th editor. She succeeds Amalie Nash, who was promoted Aug. 1 to a new role in Gannett as West Region executive editor, overseeing about 50 news organizations in the Midwest and West.