Ryan McKibben, CEO of Clarity Media Group, has announced the creation of a new position, chief executive officer of the Baltimore-Washington Examiner Group. McKibben has appointed Michael Phelps, current president and publisher of The Baltimore Examiner, to fill that position. Phelps will also assume the role of president and publisher of The Washington Examiner, occasioned by the resignation of Herb Moloney, who came to The Examiner in 2005, McKibben indicated.

Phelps became president and publisher of The Baltimore Examiner in 2005 and directed its successful launch in April 2006, as the first new, stand-alone metropolitan daily newspaper in the past several decades. Before that he was with Lee Enterprises, first as corporate vice president of sales and marketing at corporate headquarters in Davenport, Iowa. At the time he joined Clarity Media Group, he was vice president of publishing, responsible for newspapers in Iowa, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Kentucky, and simultaneously served as publisher of the Quad-City Times.