Linda O’Neil named publisher of The Lancaster News

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The parent company of The Lancaster News has named a new publisher in the wake of the departure of Dale Morefield last week.

Paxton Media Group has named Linda O’Neil publisher of all six of Paxton Media Group’s South Carolina papers, as well as one in North Carolina. Besides the Lancaster paper, those include the News & Reporter in Chester, the Progressive Journal in Pageland, the Chronicle Independent in Camden, the Lee County Observer, the Country Chronicle in Blythewood and The Enquirer Journal in Monroe, North Carolina.

O’Neil has been in the newspaper industry for over 30 years; the last four years with Paxton Media Group, which purchased The Lancaster News in 2021, along with the Chester and Pageland papers. It bought the other South Carolina papers in 2023.

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