After nearly 28 years in the local newsroom, Features Editor and humor columnist Burton Cole has accepted a new opportunity to serve as editor of a rural Kentucky weekly newspaper, The Outlook.

Former Tribune Chronicle and Vindicator reporter Ashley Fox is returning to the newsroom here to take over the role as features editor. After a short hiatus while Cole relocates out of state, his regular weekly column, Burt’s Eye View, is expected to return to this newspaper’s Sunday Life section where his many loyal readers will be able to read weekly about his new adventures.

As features editor, Fox will be responsible for feature writing, along with compiling and editing content for the Sunday Life pages and for the daily Life sections, including the Health, Food, PrimeTime and Valley Grows pages. Among other duties, Fox also is responsible for writing, assigning or otherwise compiling and editing copy for supplemental magazines that insert monthly into the newspaper, including All About Health, All About Home and Boomers and Beyond, as well as many other special sections and inserts throughout the year.

Fox, of Boardman, also worked as a copywriter, content specialist, photographer and director of media relations for two Mahoning Valley marketing and communications agencies.

While working at the Tribune Chronicle and The Vindicator previously, Fox won a first-place award in the statewide Associated Press journalism contest for her compelling, in-depth coverage of the 2020 tragic shooting death of 4-year-old Rowan Sweeney in Struthers.

Fox also previously worked as a reporter at the Lake County Leader in Polson, Montana. She studied telecommunications and journalism at Youngstown State University.