McClatchy named Kristin Roberts Vice President of News. She will lead a newly-expanded News group that comprises the company's 30 newsrooms across 14 states, news operations and McClatchy Studios, the company's long-form audio and video documentary production unit. In this top editorial role, Roberts will report to President and CEO Craig Forman, effective May 27, 2019. Roberts will become a member of McClatchy's executive management team, which will be evenly composed along gender lines with her arrival. Roberts' promotion continues a tradition of women in leadership at McClatchy. Eleanor McClatchy, the company's pioneering CEO from 1936 to 1978, expanded the company into other markets and into new mediums including radio and TV. Roberts will helm a team of strong, accomplished and pioneering regional editors who collaborate to ensure newsrooms deliver local journalism that is essential to the communities they serve: In the West region, Lauren Gustus; the Central region, Mike Fannin; and in the Carolinas, Robyn Tomlin. Before joining McClatchy, Roberts served as National Editor at POLITICO, where she guided all coverage of the 2016 presidential race to produce in-depth reporting on the candidates and their campaigns that broke news and consistently led the field.