Denver Post editors

• Edwin Palmer “Ep” Hoyt, brought in from the Portland Oregonian by The Post’s owners to be editor and publisher from February 1946 until his retirement in 1971. As the first editor in the modern age of journalism, he brings balanced coverage and revives the editorial page, which has been absent from The Post for 35 years.

• Charles R. “Chuck” Buxton, also from the Portland Oregonian, steps up as editor and publisher after Hoyt’s retirement, overseeing the newsroom until 1977.

• William H. Hornby has a long tenure at The Post from a copy reader to a vice president, the executive editor after Buxton and a senior editor until June 1981, when he is moved to editor of the editorial page. He remained a senior editor on the masthead for many years.

• Will Jarrett, from the Dallas Times Herald, is named executive editor of The Post by Times Mirror Company in June 1981.

• David Hall, previously editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, is editor from April 1984 to December 1987, and remains with Times Mirror Co. after the sale of The Post to Media News Group is finalized.

• Maurice “Moe” Hickey, from the Detroit News, is named editor and publisher on Oct. 22, 1987, by owner William Dean Singleton. He serves for a turbulent two years in which he engineers major changes to procedures and staffing at The Post.

• Anthony Campbell, Post managing editor under Hall, serves as executive editor for less than a year under Hickey. • Chuck Green, columnist and editorial-page editor, 41, is chosen by Hickey as vice president for news in August 1988, overseeing all news and editorial operations. By October, Hickey names Green the editor. Green stays until the arrival of Gil Spencer in 1989, when he returns to his role as editorial-page editor.

• Robert W. Ritter, an associate of Hickey’s, is named executive editor under Green in October 1988, exiting that post shortly after publisher Hickey leaves a year later.

• F. Gilman Spencer arrives in November 1989 from the New York Daily News at age 63 to take the helm of The Post until his retirement in October 1993. The Pulitzer-prize winning writer brings a cheerfully profane manner that lifts newsroom morale. Spencer died in 2011 at age 85.

• From October 1993 to September 1996, Neil Westergaard is named executive editor, a post he held before and after Spencer’s retirement, overlapping the transition to newly named editor, Dennis Britton.

• Dennis A. Britton, 55, a former editor of the Chicago Sun Times, was editor from March 1996 to September 1999.

• Glenn Guzzo, from the Akron Beacon Journal in Ohio, serves as editor from October 1999 to May 2002.

• Gregory L. Moore, 47, the first African-american editor in Post history, serves from June 2002 to April 2016. His first day at the helm was to oversee coverage of Colorado’s disastrous Hayman wildfire.

• Lee Ann Colacioppo is named first female editor of The Post in May 2016.