Jenn Amur has been named to the Milwaukee Newspaper Guild’s Executive Board.
Current board members picked Amur, a JSOnline producer, to fill Journal Sentinel copy editor John Schumacher’s seat as an at-large board member. Schumacher has been appointed treasurer, to replace former deputy business editor Bob Helbig, who left in last fall’s buyout but agreed to remain in office during the transition to a new treasurer.
Both the Schumacher and Amur appointments take effect Feb. 1 and last until the next membership meeting, when Guild members will have an opportunity to vote on filling the seats through the Sept. 30 end of the board term. The date of that meeting has not been set, but will be in the first quarter of this year.
Amur has served as the Guild’s human rights coordinator since October.
The board also named investigative reporter Gina Barton as Good & Welfare Committee chair.
Barton replaces Amy Rabideau Silvers, a metro reporter who left the newspaper this week to take another job. Silvers, a former board member, was the first person to chair the committee, created last spring.