11.   In addition, Sam Sperry has been named metropolitan editor, the position formerly called city editor.

12.   Joyce Purnick, the Metro Matters columnist, will be deputy metropolitan editor for city news starting next year.

13.   Michael Oreskes, metropolitan editor of The Times, will succeed Apple as Washington bureau chief.

14.   She has been a general assignment reporter, a City Hall reporter and the deputy metropolitan editor and has been a columnist three times.

15.   She will report to Michael Oreskes, metropolitan editor.

16.   She was the metropolitan editor of El Diario when de Dios was the editor in chief.

17.   The deputy metropolitan editor, Joyce Purnick, will become metropolitan editor.

18.   The editor, Donald Forst, is to be metropolitan editor of The News.

19.   Tollerson, former editor of the editorial page of New York Newsday, has been assistant metropolitan editor for political and governmental news at The Times since January.

20.   Wenger has been named deputy metropolitan editor.