Sam Bungey has been named online editor for the Vineyard Gazette, newspaper editor Julia Wells announced this week. Mr. Bungey grew up in London and graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in 2003. After university he launched Mongrel, a monthly youth-culture magazine that he ran for four years. Published in Dublin, the magazine was circulated nationwide.

He began working as a reporter for the Gazette in September of 2007. The nephew of Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz of Vineyard Haven, he lives in Chilmark.

As online editor, Mr. Bungey will be responsible for managing the editorial content of the Gazette Web site, in addition to continuing his work as a reporter and writer for the newspaper.

Among other things he will edit and produce a new blog for the Gazette this summer.