There are two new faces at the Taylor Press.
Jason Chlapek and Emily Treadway began their tenure at the paper two weeks ago. Chlapek is the area managing editor for both the Press and the Elgin Courier, and Treadway is a general-assignments reporter specializing in education for the Press.
Chlapek started Feb. 3. He replaces April Kelley, who died in December.
Treadway began her tenure at the Press Feb. 5. She takes over from Kelly Tran, who took a job with an Austinbased magazine.
“We’re very pleased to have two journalists join the staff of the caliber of Jason and Emily,” said Thomas Edwards, executive editor of Granite Media Partners Inc., which owns the Press and Courier. “We’re expecting great things from both.”
Chlapek has a 20-year career in the newspaper industry — entirely in Texas. His stops include daily papers in New Braunfels, Plano, Kerrville, Seguin, Killeen and Temple; a three-days-a-week publication in Brenham; and weekly publications in Madisonville, Gonzales, Center, Trinity County, Whitesboro and Freestone County.
The papers in Madisonville, Gonzales and Center were under the operation of Granite Publications, the forerunner of Granite Media Partners. Granite still operates the Madisonville Meteor.
Chlapek said he is happy to be in his new role.
“It’s been a great first two weeks on the job,” he said. “I’ve met some wonderful people and look forward to meeting more wonderful people. I am blessed to be a part of two outstanding publications in the Press and the Courier, and I look forward to giving the readers of those papers balanced, quality content.” Treadway is the former editor of the Georgetown View and has a background primarily in magazine writing, having penned stories for the Georgetown View and its sister magazine the Hill Country View, and most recently, Edible Austin and Edible San Antonio.
“I have freelanced for area newspapers in the past,” Treadway said. “But working for a newspaper like the Taylor Press is a new experience for me. I’m very excited.”
She already has a relationship with the Taylor community, having worked as cowriter and researcher on a documentary with “The Daytripper’s” Chet Garner about Dan Moody, the Taylor native who took on the Ku Klux Klan and became the governor of Texas in 1927.
Through that project, she became friends with Taylor’s own Carolyn Gossett Jackson, a legendary television personality, radio-show host, author and more.
“I’m looking forward to learning more about the people of Taylor and telling their stories,” Treadway said.
