Argus announces new editor of paper
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ONTARIO — Beginning Monday the Argus Observer and Independent Enterprise in Payette will have a new editor to oversee operations of the editorial department.
Scott McIntosh, 41, has been a newspaper journalist for 18 years. Most recently, he was the owner and editor of the Kuna Melba News, a weekly, in Kuna, for five years, from 2006 to 2011. During that time, he won 27 awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Idaho Press Club.
Prior to that, McIntosh was an assistant metro editor at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., he was the managing editor at the San Mateo (Calif.) County Times, was a copy editor at the News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, and started his career as a reporter and copy editor at the Current-Argus in Carlsbad, N.M.
McIntosh holds bachelor's degrees in newspaper journalism and English from Syracuse University.
He and his wife, Nicola, have been married for 15 years and have two sons, Luke, 10, and Robert, 7.
McIntosh said he is really looking forward to working with the staff at the papers and doing the best job possible in covering the community.
"I'm very open to listening to the community and hearing what local residents want to see in their local newspaper," he said.
McIntosh said after selling the Kuna Melba News he was looking for an opportunity to continue pursuing his passion — local community journalism, and the Argus Observer and the Independent Enterprise provide that opportunity.
"I feel passionately that what newspapers cover has the greatest amount of impact on people's lives," McIntosh said, adding community newspapers report on a variety of decisions that affect people greatly, including tax rates, sewer rates and property tax values. "These are things that happen very close to home."