Tim Reeves has been named publisher of The Vicksburg Post and president of Vicksburg Newsmedia, LLC.
Reeves, a native of Silverhill, Ala., is an award-winning community newspaper editor and publisher. He has been editor of The Selma (Ala.) Times-Journal since September 2010. The Post and the Times-Journal are affiliated with Boone Newspapers Inc., with offices in Natchez and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
“I am absolutely thrilled by the opportunity to come to Vicksburg and humbled by the chance to help lead the community’s newspaper,” Reeves said. “When my wife and I recently visited Vicksburg, we were blown away by the city and its welcoming people. We cannot wait to be make it our home.”

Reeves began his newspaper career immediately after high school, working at Gulf Coast Newspapers in Alabama while earning a mass communications degree from Faulkner State Community College.
During Reeves’ four years as editor in Selma, the Times-Journal earned 46 editorial awards from the Alabama Press Association, including the Most Improved Newspaper award in 2011 and 2012.
In 2013 and 2014, the Times-Journal was named one of the best small daily newspapers in Alabama, earning second place general excellence honors. The newspaper also received awards for best public service in 2013 and 2014.
Prior to his time in Selma, Reeves served as publisher of The Outlook, a daily newspaper in Alexander City, Ala., and the daily Suffolk (Va.) News-Herald, both affiliates of Boone Newspapers.
“The Vicksburg Post’s great staff is to be commended for much hard work in meeting our obligations to our readers and advertisers as we arranged for the Reeves to move their family to Vicksburg,” Boone Newspapers Vice President Kevin Cooper of Natchez said. “Tim will do an excellent job leading the newspaper. His skills, determination and dedication developing people will make an already great newspaper team even better.”
Reeves, along with his wife, Stephanie, stepdaughter Sarah Cameron Fancher and sons Clayton and Fin, have already begun the process of relocating to Vicksburg. Reeves will begin work in Vicksburg Sept 29.