Judy Meyer, executive editor of the Sun Journal, is stepping down at the end of the week, the newspaper announced on Monday.
Meyer’s is the latest in a string of top-level departures from papers owned by the nonprofit National Trust for Local News, which acquired the Sun Journal along with the Portland Press Herald and 20 other Maine newspapers in 2023.
Meyer started as a journalist for the Lewiston-based daily in 1990. She had been in the top role of executive editor for almost a decade, according to the Sun Journal.
A champion of public access to government records, Meyer served on the Maine Legislature’s Right to Know Advisory Committee and in the New England First Amendment Coalition.
In a statement quoted by the Sun Journal, Gov. Janet Mills said Meyer “hasn’t just delivered the news — she’s been a staunch defender of the First Amendment and the public’s right-to-know.”
Meyer was named Maine’s Journalist of the Year in 2003 and was inducted into the Maine Press Association’s Hall of Fame in 2022. Her last day is Friday, according to the Sun Journal.