RALEIGH, N.C. — An editor with the News & Observer of Raleigh will become a deputy secretary at the North Carolina Transportation Department to lead communications efforts.
Transportation Secretary Gene Conti on Monday announced the appointment of Ted Vaden as deputy secretary for communications.
Conti said he obtained permission from Gov. Beverly Perdue to create the position, despite a hiring freeze imposed last fall. The new position was recommended by a consultant to help make the agency more efficient and accountable to the public.
Vaden will supervise a staff of about 20 employees and will earn $117,403 in the new post.
Vaden has been the public editor for the newspaper since 2004. Before that, he was editor of the N&O's Chapel Hill News for 11 years. He joined the N&O in 1977.



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I dropped my subscription as a result and am not looking back. Vaden was nothing more than a puppet at the N&O, now they actually put him in charge of people? Oh boy.
February 17, 2009 2:35 p.m.
NOW, the reporters will NOT have to wade through the tedious facts of actually getting the FACTS...An Engineer in Goldsboro told her bosses that the amount of Asphalt they intended to put on their UN-NEEDED road was inadequate...
Now the DOT can give them a copy ready press release...probably electronically...so they can file it and we, the public, will be Fatter, Dumber and Happier....UNTIL we have a blow out and ruin a tire on a pothole..
Progress marches BACKWARD!!!!
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