As part of the Maine Trust for Local News’ ongoing restructuring, new managing editors were named this month for the Sun Journal and the two Central Maine newspapers.

• Ben Bragdon was named the Sun Journal’s managing editor and will oversee all news production at the Lewiston paper. Bragdon previously worked as deputy managing editor for local news at the Central Maine newspapers, primarily overseeing enterprise projects. Before that, he worked for a decade as the Central Maine papers’ editorial page editor, following stints at two other local newspapers in Maine.

• Jessica Lowell was promoted to managing editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Lowell had served as the city editor at the Central Maine publications since February 2024, and was the Gardiner-area reporter for the Kennebec Journal eight and a half years prior. She has decades of experience in the news industry, having worked at newspapers in New Hampshire, New York and Wyoming before returning to Maine, where she attended college.

Lowell and Bragdon — along with Central Maine deputy managing editor Stacy Blanchet and Sun Journal deputy managing editors Mark Mogensen and Marla Hoffman — “will collaborate to bring these newsrooms closer together, taking advantage of shared resources” and spreading out editing duties, Maine Trust Executive Editor Carolyn Fox said in an internal memo. Lowell and Bragdon will report directly to Fox.

The changes come after the Feb. 28 departure of longtime Sun Journal Executive Editor Judy Meyer, who also served more recently as the executive editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Meyer’s was the latest in a series of high-level departures, following CEO Lisa DeSisto, Sun Journal Publisher Jody Jalbert and the National Trust for Local News’ founder and CEO.

Bragdon and Lowell’s promotions also follow the elevation of former Central Maine Managing Editor Scott Monroe to managing editor of the Maine Trust in November, two months after Fox was hired as the trust’s first executive editor.