Former Contra Costa Times executive editor Chris Lopez has been hired by the Denver 2008 Democratic Convention Host Committee as its communications director, the Denver Post reported today. Lopez was replaced as the top editor of the Contra Costa Times in October 2006 shortly after MediaNews Group took over the paper. In February, Lopez took a top newsroom job at Gannett’s Desert Sun in Palm Springs. Earlier in his career he worked at newspapers in Colorado including the Denver Post. (Photo credit: Gannett.com)