Tupelo Has First New Sports Editor in 20 Years
John L. Pitts has been named sports editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo. He succeeds Gene Phelps, who led the sports desk for two decades and becomes a senior writer at the Journal.
Pitts, 49, was most recently on staff at the Times Daily in Florence, AL. He is a former assistant sports editor at the Tupelo paper.
Turns out there’s more fruitbasket turnover in Tupelo. Longtime sports writer Mark Beason is leaving the paper to take a job with Mississippi Outdoors.