Wednesday evening the Iowa State Daily Publication Board, Inc. appointed Pat Brown as fall 2006 and spring 2007 editor in chief of the Iowa State Daily and Chris Sigmund as summer 2006 editor in chief.

Brown was the sole applicant for the fall and spring and currently serves as the paper’s managing editor of content and development. Throughout the year Brown also served as sports editor of the Daily, covering Cyclone football and the women’s basketball team.

Brown said he is excited to accept the position and has plans to improve the Daily’s news coverage with expanded reporting roles and increasing communication and training of the paper’s reporters.

“I want to be an approachable editor in chief and offer help whenever I can,” he said.

Robert Platt, College of Engineering board member and senior in industrial engineering, said Brown possessed good people skills and a driven personality, making him a good choice.

“He seems really driven, really committed,” Platt said.

Brown, junior in journalism and mass communication, said he wants to work to make the Daily a more welcoming and supportive environment for students, especially those who are inexperienced and eager to learn.

As sports editor this semester, Brown worked with reporters to expand and enhance the section’s coverage of Cyclone athletics with broad, comprehensive coverage of Big 12 athletics and intramural sports on campus, and hopes to implement those methods with the paper’s news section.

As fall editor in chief, Brown will work with Sigmund to provide a smooth transition.

Sigmund, currently a columnist and online editor for the Daily, said he looks forward to updating the way the Daily communicates.

“I want to bring [to] the Daily a more student-friendly format,” he said.

Platt said Sigmund was chosen because of his solid ideas and understanding of how the newspaper industry operates.

Sigmund, junior in economics, said he wanted to take the chance to turn the Daily into a source for students that rivals other papers.

“I plan to set up an infrastructure that will be able to improve the paper and compete,” he said.

As far as the transition from summer to fall, there is only optimism. Brown said that he and Sigmund have already begun to talk.

“I’m not even worried about the transition,” Brown said.

The Daily is an independent student newspaper serving the ISU and Ames community since 1890, and is open to all ISU students and majors.