DE LAMA/WARREN NAMED DEPUTY MANAGING EDITORS OF CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO, July 20, 2001 – George de Lama, associate managing editor for foreign and national news, has been named deputy managing editor/news and James Warren, associate managing editor for Washington news, has been named deputy managing editor/features of the Chicago Tribune. The announcement was made by James O’Shea, managing editor of the newspaper.
De Lama joined the Chicago Tribune in 1978. He has been a reporter, foreign correspondent, White House correspondent and associate managing editor, both in the foreign and national news department and in metropolitan news. De Lama was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and Hispanic Business named him one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.
Warren joined the Chicago Tribune in 1984. He has covered labor, media, law and politics, served as editor of the Tribune’s Tempo section and has spent the last seven years as the Tribune’s Washington bureau chief. In Washington, he was instrumental in creating one the first multi-media news bureaus in the newspaper industry and has been named on of the capital’s 50 most influential journalists by Washingtonian Magazine.
“Both men are superbly qualified for these positions,” O’Shea said. “The breadth and depth of their experience will be invaluable as the Chicago Tribune moves forward.”
The Chicago Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper with daily readership of more than 2,000,000 and nearly 3,000,000 on Sunday, covers the Chicago area, the Midwest, and the world both in the printed newspaper and on the Internet at chicagotribune.com. Chicago Tribune is part of Tribune (NYSE: TRB), one of the country’s premier media companies, operating businesses in broadcasting, publishing and on the Internet.
