James Brown will become the company’s first general manager. Tom Marquardt will become the new executive editor and Loretta Haring has been promoted to managing editor of The Capital.

Capital-Gazette Newspapers, based in Annapolis, owns The Capital, Maryland Gazette, Bowie-Blade News, Crofton News-Crier and West County News.

Casey, who has served as the company’s executive editor for 30 years, will stay on as editorial page editor. Casey, who turns 70 in April, joined Capital-Gazette Newspapers in 1971. He started his newspaper career in 1956 as sportswriter at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press. He served in various editor positions at the Endicott (N.Y.) Bulletin, the Binghamton (N.Y.) Sun-Bulletin, and the Dover (N.J.) Advance. Casey is a past president of the MDDC Press Association.

Brown, 47, has been chief financial officer of Capital-Gazette Newspapers for nearly six years and has worked for the company since 1985. He will be responsible for the overall direction of the business operations of the Washingtonian magazine as well as the company’s newspapers. He formerly worked in accounting at the Arkansas Gazette and Burlington Industries.

Marquardt, 53, has been managing editor at The Capital since 1977. Earlier, he worked in various editing positions at the Ypsilanti Press and the Big Rapids Pioneer, both in Michigan. Marquardt is chair of the MDDC Freedom of Information Subcomittee and chaired the Access Maryland project, an audit of public records conducted accross the state last summer by MDDC member papers.