Dispatches
Julie Finley has been promoted to managing editor of The Natchez Democrat. She has served as news editor since 2005…Crystal Dupre, publisher of the Laurel Leader-Call since 2002, has been appointed publisher of The Meridian Star. She succeeds Paul Barrett, another former LLC publisher who had served as the Star’s top exec since 1997…Woodrow Wilkins Jr. has been named managing editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville. He is promoted from senior reporter…Lynn LaFoe returns to the DDT as Accent section editor. LaFoe, who previously served as Lifestyles/Accent editor, left the newspaper nearly three years ago.