Former Arkansas journalist Stephen Buel was named editor in chief of The San Francisco Examiner last month.
The Examiner is a free tabloid. According to its website, it has an average daily circulation of 251,177 and 407,973 on Sundays.
Buel, who served previously as the California newspaper’s city editor, has more than 30 years of journalism experience, including stints in Little Rock as an Arkansas Democrat reporter. In Arkansas in 1985, Buel helped found Spectrum, an alternative weekly newspaper that stopped publishing in 1993. He also worked part time for The Daily Record, the legal filings publication in Little Rock.
Buel left Arkansas to cover Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign for United Press International of Washington, D.C., in 1992.
Buel’s wife, Judith Gallman, likewise was once an Arkansas Democrat reporter before the paper became the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in 1991. Gallman also served as a reporter and editor for the Arkansas Times and for Arkansas Business Publishing Group. She is currently editor of Alameda Magazine in Alameda, Calif.
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