sentences:  Taliaferro was hired after Hobby’s private equity firm, Genesis Park Partners, bought the magazine in October 2016.After Oppel served briefly as ombudsman, Hobby announced that Oppel would become interim editor-in-chief of the "Monthly" on May 5, 2018.Oppel has served as vice president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors, president of the North Carolina Press Association, and chair of the North Carolina First Amendment Association.