San Diego Community Newspaper Group recently promoted Claire Harlin to the position of editor of La Jolla Village News. Harlin, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, joined San Diego Community Newspaper Group in September as the newsroom’s assistant editor. Harlin has prior experience serving with community newspapers, having worked for The South Philly Review and Spirit Community Newspapers, both in Philadelphia. Previously, she was co-founder and assistant editor of The Fugitive Post, a publication focusing on crime in Austin, Texas. She supervised a staff of nearly 200 as the editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of UT-Austin. Harlin was featured in the June 2008 issue of Editor & Publisher magazine for starting one of the first successful student multimedia departments and blogs, and she has appeared on CNN, Ireland’s RTE “Prime Time” and local TV news programs in Austin. She also has experience traveling to Mexico City in 2006 to cover the country’s presidential elections. “Claire is a top talent and is a very capable editor,” said John Gregory, newspaper group executive editor. “She brings us new vision and exciting concepts for news coverage and presentation. It will be fun to see how she molds the Village News into a more progressive and highly-detailed newspaper in the future.”