Daily Pilot Editor S.J. Cahn Resigns

Daily Pilot editor S.J Cahn is stepping down from the helm of the Newport Beach-Costa Mesa daily:

Daily Pilot Editor Resigns After 7 Years With The Newspaper

S.J. Cahn says someone else should be at paper's helm as new era begins in Newport-Mesa.

After seven years at the Daily Pilot, including more than a year as editor, S.J. Cahn is stepping down from his post.

"There are some things, professionally and personally, that now seems like the time to get to," Cahn said. "It also seems like a time for change in Newport-Mesa following the elections, and I figured it would be best for someone else to lead the paper into that new era."

Cahn started as city editor at the Pilot in March 1999, just weeks before the paper covered a murder on a Costa Mesa playground. That coverage, of a man who drove his Cadillac into students and teachers, won the paper a statewide news award.

The 37-year-old Cahn started his career at a small weekly newspaper in Missouri. He has worked in the Washington bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and as a copy editor at the Kansas City Star. He earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He also has a bachelor's degree from Notre Dame and a master's degree in English from the University of Washington.

He became the Pilot's managing editor in January 2002.

 

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Pound-for-pound, the Daily Pilot proivides the best political coverage in Orange County, in my opinion. For a daily that only covers two cities, Pilot reporter Alicia Robinson generates a lot of political-governmental stories -- and a good deal of the credit also belongs for Cahn for obviously making political coverage a priority.

Good luck, Steve!

Comments

[Hanna]

I second your opinion, Jubal. The Daily Pilot has had several reporters who excellently covered the El Toro battle for many years.

Cahn, and Tony Dodero before him, steered the Pilot so that, while clearly promoting the city's interest, gave equal coverage to the other side of the story. (Often to the displeasure of the readers).

I join you, Jubal, in wishing Cahn good luck in his next "assignment."

[Bob Hanna]

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