• by Ray Schultz , July 1, 2025

Colleen McCain Nelson is moving from her post as executive editor of The Sacramento Bee -- the highest editorial title -- to assume the same post at the Dallas Morning News, another McClatchy publication. 

Nelson, who has served at the Bee for over four years, worked at the Dallas Morning News before that and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 2010.  

Managing Editor Scott Lebar, a 40-year veteran of the Bee, will take on the role of interim editor.

“It’s tough to leave The Bee newsroom, but I am returning to the city I called home for 12 years and the newsroom where I spent my formative years as a journalist,” Nelson says, according to the Bee.