{"id":16402,"date":"2019-07-04T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=58694"},"modified":"2019-07-04T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:43:52","slug":"sky-hi-news-welcomes-new-editor-with-deep-colo-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/sky-hi-news-welcomes-new-editor-with-deep-colo-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky-Hi News welcomes new editor with deep Colo. ties"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eli Pace<\/strong>
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The Sky-Hi News has hired Eli Pace as its editor, bringing on board a 37-year-old veteran journalist who has filled almost every position a newspaper\u2019s editorial department has to offer.<\/p>\n

Pace comes to Grand County after most recently working as features editor and then reporter for the Summit Daily News in Frisco. As a reporter, he covered town governments, business, real estate, nonprofits, marijuana, breaking news and general assignment stories.<\/p>\n

That stint lasted more than two-and-a-half years and followed Pace holding the role of managing editor for the Kentucky New Era Media Group, a small assortment of family-owned community publications based out of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, which he did for nearly five years.<\/p>\n

In Kentucky, Pace spearheaded numerous niche and special publications while overseeing the production of a weekly newspaper and leading the newsroom for the media group\u2019s flagship newspaper \u2014 the Kentucky New Era \u2014 which delivered in print five days a week and online 24\/7.<\/p>\n

During his tenure at the New Era, the newspaper expanded its local coverage, grew its digital audience and began naming an athlete of the year among local high schools for every sanctioned sport. At the same time, Pace led the newspaper\u2019s coverage through major events like floods, tornadoes and more than one murder case that made headlines in the New York Times.<\/p>\n

However, Pace has also done a lot with a host of community events, happenings like donkey basketball fundraisers, the Hopkinsville Rotary Club\u2019s annual weeklong auction or youth pageants at the Western Kentucky State Fair.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, the paper was going through budget cuts, and I really wanted to come home,\u201d Pace said of his reasons for resigning as editor of the Kentucky New Era.<\/p>\n

While the bulk of Pace\u2019s professional experience came to him in the South, he grew up on Colorado\u2019s eastern plains, having graduated high school in Fort Morgan and college at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.<\/p>\n

And it was in Greeley that Pace began his professional career, first landing a job as an agate clerk with the Greeley Tribune\u2019s sports department before starting to work his way up the ladder.<\/p>\n

After graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism, Pace moved to Tennessee, where he has a large concentration of family and worked various positions at a handful of papers, including copy editor and night editor, before jumping the state line to Kentucky.<\/p>\n

In Kentucky, Pace led a small staff of about 10 journalists who were perennially recognized as among the best in the state press association\u2019s division of mid-sized daily publications. Additionally, he has won individual awards for writing, photography, page design and use of social media.<\/p>\n

Pace assumed the editor\u2019s duties at Sky-Hi News on Wednesday, and he aims to keep the newspaper as focused on Grand County as it can be, while also looking to grow local coverage and be of service to the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing I would like to emphasize, it\u2019s how happy I am to be here,\u201d Pace said. \u201cI grew up staring at these mountains. Now, I get to live and work in the heart of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pace takes the editor\u2019s job at Sky-Hi News after Bryce Martin left the position to become the digital engagement editor for the Steamboat Pilot & Today.<\/p>\n

Pace\u2019s hobbies include skiing, camping, hiking, whitewater adventures, photography, going to the movies, spending time with friends and family, and shooting the breeze with anyone who has a good story to tell.<\/p>\n

He also likes meeting new people and welcomes anyone to stop by the Sky-Hi office in Granby. Reach him at epace@skyhinews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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