New editing, online assignments

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New duties for several staffers in print and online were announced this week:

PRINT:

Monte Morin will become Metro’s weekend editor, responsible for shaping the Sunday California section, working with the rest of the desk and the A1 editors on our weekend page-one offers and directing coverage on Saturdays. Monte first started writing for The Times in 1999 as a stringer and became a staff writer the next year. In 2005, he took a job with Stars and Stripes, and worked a two-year tour of the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia before returning to The Times as our night editor.

Jill Jones will become Metro’s night editor, responsible for keeping the nightly chaos at bay, handling our late-breaking stories, managing the production process and coordinating with the A1 and AA1 editors. This is a re-up for Jill, who did a previous stint as night editor from 2004 to 2007. Jill started here as a reporter in the Orange County edition. In 1998, Jill became an assignment editor in Orange County. Most recently, she has been the O.C. city editor.

ONLINE:

Lori Kozlowski, senior producer for mobile platforms, will focus on The Times’ mobile efforts, including the mobile website (mobile.latimes.com), iPhone apps, mobile-only content and other digital innovation that surrounds smart phones and how people consume news on the go. Lori came to The Times in 2007 and has worked on multiple Web-only projects and Web components to large stories -- such as the Olympics and the 2008 presidential election. Before The Times, Lori worked for the city of Los Angeles, ramping up its digital efforts, and was the editor of its internal publications

Jason La, senior producer in features, will oversee the features Web team to build out our Travel, Home, Image, Health and Books sites and will work closely with Alice Short to develop new site features and content. Jason has worked for The Times’ website since 2007, starting as an associate travel and homepage producer. He has had his hands in other parts of the website as well, working on projects in Features, Metro and Opinion. Before joining The Times, Jason worked for Yahoo! News.

Stephanie Ferrell, art director-online, will focus on the visual display of our report through latimes.com and associated efforts. Stephanie brought a decade of graphic and Web design experience to L.A. Times Interactive when she joined the team as senior Web designer in 2005. She was the lead online designer on “Altered Oceans,” a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning series. She also shared in the Online Journalism Award for the same series from the Overseas Press Club. Stephanie has continued to collaborate across the interdepartmental landscape on many major editorial projects since then, including the Sigma Delta Chi and Scripps Howard honors for “Mexico Under Siege.”