Inquirer editorial: Davies named Inquirer deputy editorial page editor

Paul D. Davies has been named deputy editorial page editor of the Inquirer, effective Aug. 29. He replaces Josh Gohlke, who resigned to return to his home state of California.

Born in Philadelphia, Davies served as the Inquirer's deputy editorial page editor from 2007 to 2011, and was instrumental in improving the department's online presence. For the past two years, Davies has been a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow for the Institute for American Values in New York.

From 1997 to 2004, Davies was a reporter at the Philadelphia Daily News, where his stories on predatory lending led to the convictions of two people and made him a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting. He has also been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal; Worth magazine; the New Haven, Conn., Register; the Lakeland, Fla., Ledger; and the Salisbury, Md., Times. He began his career as an Inquirer suburban correspondent.

With degrees from the University of Delaware and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Davies was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia. He also won first-place citations for editorial writing in 2009 from the Keystone Press Association and the Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists.

Davies and his wife, Tara, have three children and live in Philadelphia.