Elizabeth Bush is the new Editor of The Daniel Island News

It is with great pleasure that I announce that longtime news and feature writer Elizabeth Bush has been promoted to Editor of The Daniel Island News. Beth took over the paper’s reins in October and over the past two months we have been transitioning my editorial management role to Beth. As editor, Beth is organizing, managing, and determining the content of the paper on a weekly basis. And, Beth will continue to contribute her valuable skills as a writer.

Beth’s writing has been recognized and honored with many press association awards over the years. But more importantly, she is a trusted, sincere and diligent reporter and active Daniel Island citizen with a strong journalism background.

She graduated from Appalachian State University in 1989 with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Communication Arts (and a concentration in Broadcast Journalism). After graduating, she worked at WCTI-TV 12 News in New Bern, North Carolina, as a Weekend News Anchor/Reporter and Producer. While at WCTI-TV, Beth also served as Bureau Chief for the station’s Jacksonville office, covering a variety of stories about the Marine Corps Base at Camp Lejeune, military deployments to the Persian Gulf for Operation Desert Storm, and more. In addition, she traveled to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to report on the marine’s involvement in the Haitian Relief Effort.

In 1994, Beth transitioned into the field of public relations and took a position as Communications Specialist for Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, PA. After several years as a stay-at-home mom, she rekindled her journalism career in 2005 as a freelance writer for The Daniel Island News. She lives on Daniel Island with her husband, Jeff, and their two children, Allyson and Cameron.

For the past 13 years I have served the dual role of both publisher and editor. In the last few years, the paper and our island have grown and each position now requires more time than I can adequately give to each. I will continue to consult with Beth on a regular basis on the editorial side but will focus most of my energies on the business of running a publishing company.

These are very exciting times for us! We hope to expand our news and community coverage with more writers, new columns, regular features, expanded social media and web content, investigative reporting, and interactive community reporting.

From the publishing side, we plan to build upon our community events, such as the Health & Fitness Expo, What’s the Big Idea?, and the Intergenerational Forum, as well as to introduce more topical events such as political debates and the Teens & Substance Abuse Forum we sponsored this week. Additionally, we will continue to sponsor many community events and athletic teams, to investigate new products, and to provide our advertisers and readers with high quality content. The ideas are endless!

Going forward, please submit your story ideas, save the date items, community news and all news content to our new and capable editor, Elizabeth Bush. You can contact Beth at (843) 670-8830 or via e-mail at: beth@thedanielislandnews.com.

Daniel Island Publishing

225 Seven Farms Drive
Unit 108
Daniel Island, SC 29492 

Office Number: 843-856-1999
Fax Number: 843-856-8555

 

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