Santana Wood has been promoted to assistant managing editor for Tallapoosa Publishers Inc., managing editor Jimmy Wigfield announced Monday.

Wood, 24, a native of Union Springs, has served as the design editor for all the TPI newspapers — The Alexander City Outlook, The Wetumpka Herald, The Tallassee Tribune, The Eclectic Observer and The Dadeville Record — since May 2017 following her graduation from Troy University with a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism.

Lizi Arbogast is the sports editor at Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.