Thomas McDonough has left as vice president of human resources and labor relations at The Providence Journal to become assistant vice president for human resources at Roger Williams University in Bristol. Before joining the Journal, McDonough was circulation director at the Warwick Beacon. He joined the Journal in 1982 in its circulation department. He then became human resources administrator, and then human resources manager and director of human resources. He had been a vice president since 2009.
The Transition was written from a published report by Bulletin correspondent Georgeanne Oliver, an undergraduate student at Northeastern University.