The Sumter (South Carolina) Item's newsroom has a new face and said goodbye to another, though not completely.
Bryn Eddy, newsletter editor and a reporter who covered Sumter government and Shaw Air Force Base, has accepted a new position in Osteen Publishing Company. She had been serving her role at The Item while also that of interim editor for The Lexington County Chronicle, a sister paper to The Item. She assumed the role of editor fulltime July 1.
She will not be leaving The Item completely, though. She is taking on a larger company role as South Carolina newsletter editor. In addition to their family's legacy ownership of The Sumter Item, Kyle and Jack Osteen own The Lexington County Chronicle in Lexington and The Bluffton Sun and Hilton Head Sun in the Bluffton area with Vince Johnson, publisher of The Item.
The Item has welcomed Deirdre Currin to the newsroom, where Currin will serve as the Sumter news reporter, covering local government, military and general Sumter County topics.
