Melanie Sill, executive editor of the News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., and part of a 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning team there, was named editor of the Sacramento Bee.
Sill replaces Rick Rodriguez, who led the Bee for nine years before resigning this month in a dispute over the long-term direction of the newspaper. She is to be succeeded at the Raleigh newspaper by Managing Editor John Drescher.
