BrownCHARLOTTE — Spencer K.M. Brown is joining the Catholic News Herald as editor, succeeding Patricia L. Guilfoyle, who remains with the Diocese of Charlotte as assistant communications director.
Brown has a decade of experience in writing, editing and marketing for a variety of publications including Triad City Beat, “Press 53” and TAN Books, where he edited and acquired authors for its “Catholic Courses” series. He also is an award-winning fiction writer and poet, a novelist, and has guided the publication of poetry collections. He previously worked as a middle school English and literature teacher at St. Leo School in Winston-Salem.
Brown grew up reading the Catholic News Herald and as a child became a pen pal with then Bishop William Curlin, a correspondence that continued even after the bishop retired. His father, Carl F. Brown, serves as a deacon at Good Shepherd Mission in King.
He and his wife have a 3-year-old son and are members of St. Leo the Great Parish in Winston-Salem.
Brown assumes the post from Guilfoyle, who served for 11 years, overseeing the Catholic News Herald’s growth to a print circulation of 60,000, a website and social media channels in English and Spanish. The newspaper has frequently been named among the best diocesan publications in the nation under her leadership. Guilfoyle will continue to guide the Catholic News Herald but will focus on additional communications efforts.
FergusonAlso joining the diocese’s communications office is Annie Ferguson, who brings almost two decades of experience writing and editing a variety of communications materials including news and feature stories, scripts, social media, websites, employee communications and marketing materials.
She will write for the Catholic News Herald and other diocesan communication channels.
She and her family are parishioners of Our Lady of Grace Church in Greensboro.
— Catholic News Herald