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Published on: 7/29/2002
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-- Susan Chira, editor of the Week in Review, has been named editorial director of book development, succeeding Mitchel R. Levitas, who plans to retire. -- Kathleen O. McElroy, a deputy sports editor, was named associate managing editor for weekends, in charge of news coverage in the Sunday and Monday newspapers. -- Katherine J. Roberts, national editor, will succeed Ms. Chira as editor of the Week in Review. -- Jim Roberts, the deputy national editor, was named national editor, overseeing the Times's 25-member reporting staff throughout the United States outside of Washington.
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Mr. Levitas, 72, became editorial director of Book Development at The New York Times in 1995, after having served as Op-Ed page editor since 1990.Among his many past positions at The Times were the editorship of the Book Review, from 1983 to 1989.He was named metropolitan editor in 1976 and editor of the Week in Review in 1977.
Earlier, Mr. Levitas was a news writer for the Voice of America and then a reporter for The New York Post, where he won a George Polk Memorial Award for investigative reporting on labor unions.
He also worked at Time magazine as an assistant editor before moving to The Times in 1965.A graduate of Brooklyn College, Mr. Levitas is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard and was a visiting scholar under the Woodrow Wilson fellowship program.He is the author of "America in Crisis" (Holt, 1969).