The Minnesota Daily Board announced Thursday that current Arts and Entertainment desk editor Alexis Letang will be the Daily’s new Editor-in-Chief for the 2025-26 academic year.

Letang, who has worked as the arts and entertainment desk editor since spring 2024, will step into the role in May.

Letang started her career at the Daily in 2023 as an intern for the campus administration desk. From there, she worked as a reporter and later editor for the arts and entertainment desk. 

“I’m happy,” Letang said. “I’ve been wanting this since I transferred here, so this is a little unreal.”

She said her main goals are to further the Daily’s video programming and update its style guide.

The Minnesota Daily Board said in a statement it believes “Letang’s leadership will be beneficial in continuing the momentum cultivated in the Minnesota Daily over the last year.” 

Current Daily EIC Spencer White said he is excited about the decision. 

“Alexis has a lot of leadership experience,” White said. “She has a lot of good ideas, and we’re excited to see what she does with the paper next year.”

White said he looks forward to seeing where Letang’s ideas will take her. 

Marketing and Engagement Officer Destanee Ulrich said she is confident in the Board’s decision. Ulrich said she looks forward to working with Letang and seeing what she accomplishes. 

Minnesota Daily Board member and University journalism professor Seth Richardson said he always has high expectations for student journalists and expects great things. 

“The Daily has really been leading in breaking a lot of news and kind of driving a lot of the discussion about some of the bigger news events that are going on,” Richardson said. “So I’m very excited to see the newsroom and, really, the entire organization continue to grow as we are.”