People on the move 12/7/2015

The Southeast Missourian has added several employees to its newsroom staff.

Josh Mlot is the Missourian's new sports editor. Mlot graduated Miami (Ohio) University in Oxford, Ohio, with a journalism degree in 2004. He has been covering sports for eight years, most recently as sports editor with a trio of newspapers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi -- The Hattiesburg Post, The Lamar Times and The Petal News. He and his wife, Samantha, who works in the Missourian's advertising department, have two children.

Mark Bliss

Mark Bliss has returned to the Southeast Missourian as a staff writer, covering government. He served as publications coordinator in the marketing department at SoutheastHEALTH for the past eight years. Before that, he was employed as a reporter at the Southeast Missourian for 28 years, covering everything from crime to government. He is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He and his family reside in Cape Girardeau.

Ben Kleine

Ben Kleine has joined the Missourian staff as crime and courts reporter. Originally from Manchester, Missouri, Kleine graduated in 2009 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before coming to the Missourian, Kleine was the education and health reporter at the Panama City News Herald in Florida.

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Sharon Anderson

Cape Girardeau Public Library youth services coordinator Sharon Anderson is a candidate for graduation this month at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas.

Anderson will graduate Saturday with a master of library science degree. Anderson lives in Cape Girardeau and has been with the Cape Girardeau Public Library for 15 years.

-- From staff reports