New Editor Named to Lead Newsday

Howard Schneider, a longtime managing editor at Newsday, was named editor of the newspaper, succeeding Anthony J. Marro, who will retire next month after leading the newsroom for 16 years.

Publisher Raymond A. Jansen said he selected Schneider, 57, in part because of his experience leading Newsday’s multimedia efforts on the Internet, television, radio and in books and magazines.

The publisher also praised Schneider’s commitment to print journalism and to the newspaper, which he joined as a reporter 34 years ago.

Marro’s career at Newsday spans more than three decades and includes working on two investigations that won journalism’s highest honor, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, in 1970 and 1974. Marro, 61, briefly left to work at Newsweek and the New York Times. He became Newsday’s editor in 1987 and the paper has since won nine Pulitzers.

Newsday is owned by Tribune Co., which also publishes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers.