A Fort Worth native and veteran journalist has been named the next sports editor of the Star-Telegram.

Jim Barnes, a Castleberry High graduate, is returning home after spending the past 13 years with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Barnes begins on Monday, Aug. 4.

“I started reading the Star-Telegram sports section when I was 5 years old,” said Barnes, whose parents and brother live in Fort Worth. “I’m beyond thrilled to return home to lead that section and work with a talented staff to deliver insightful and entertaining coverage of the DFW sports scene.”

After graduating from Castleberry, Barnes attended the University of Texas at Austin.

For the past three years, he served as an assistant sports editor of the Review-Journal. Previous duties there included being a reporter covering sp

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