Michael Rocha Promoted at The San Diego Union-Tribune

March 21, 2008

Michael James Rocha, features design editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune, has been promoted to the newly created position of Audience Development and Utility Content Editor. As part of a newsroom reorganization, Michael assumes project-management responsibilities for various editorial products, both in print and online, including existing magazine titles, such as SDHome and SDHealth. He will work with the Innovations Team to brainstorm, plan, create and eventually launch new products -- niche publications and Web sites for targeted audiences. He will also work with the newsroom in nurturing new forms of storytelling and visual approaches that maximize the newspaper's overall usefulness to readers.

Rocha is a graduate of the ELP Class of 2000 in San Diego and is a former AAJA National Advisory and AAJA San Diego chapter board member. He is one of the founding members of AAJA-San Diego when it was revived in the late 1990s. In 2003, he co-chaired the AAJA National Convention in San Diego.