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Mark Pickering

Mark Pickering

Editor/Correspondent

Mark Pickering was in news management at The Pantagraph for most of his 37 1/2 years at the newspaper -- the last 13 as editor. He retired in late May 2019.

Pickering started at the newspaper as a reporter, and was promoted to various editor roles, including city editor, associate editor/content and associate editor before being named to lead the News Department in 2006. Pickering started his career in journalism in 1979 as a reporter, then city editor at the Mount Vernon Register-News.