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Jorden Spitz named editor of the Star 

Jill Jorden Spitz has been named editor of the Arizona Daily Star.

She joined the Star in 1998 as a reporter and also has served as business editor, assistant managing editor and most recently as a senior editor.

Jorden Spitz has focused on watchdog and investigative reporting; projects she directed and edited for the Star have won 15 Lee Enterprises’ President’s Awards or other national honors.

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She is active in state and national journalism organizations including Associated Press Media Editors and is past president and a longtime board member of both the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Arizona Press Club.

A native Tucsonan, Jorden Spitz, 50, graduated from Canyon del Oro High School and the University of Arizona, where she earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and economics.

She began her career as a reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and then moved to the Orlando Sentinel.

Jorden Spitz is active in many Tucson groups, including Women at the Top, and serves on the board of the Tucson Chinese Cultural Center and the school board of the Tucson Chinese School. She also volunteers for Nourish, a Tucson nonprofit.