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Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:39 |
--Nicholas “Nick” Counts is the new sports editor for the Mount Pleasant Daily Tribune. He had worked his way up through various departments at the newspaper for the past seven years.
--Robert W. Decherd, chairman of A.H. Belo Corp., the owner of The Dallas Morning News and Denton Record Chronicle, will double his top base salary to $600,000 this year, compared with $250,000 in 2008, the company announced. Decherd voluntarily reduced his salary in 2008, after receiving $985,000 in 2007 as chairman and CEO of pre-split Belo Corp. He also waived his 2008 bonus, which probably would have been about $330,000, the company said. In 2007, he received a $3 million bonus.
-- Eddie Farrell joined the Hereford Brand as a reporter. He came from a newspaper in Washington and has worked at newspapers in several other states. He was a Donald W. Reynolds scholar while attending California State University.
-- Mike Hall, was promoted to vice president of operations at the Abilene Reporter-News. His duties also will include all manufacturing operations for the San Angelo Standard-Times, a sister daily printed in Abilene. Hall has been with the Reporter-News since January 2001. Hall previously worked at several newspapers owned by Gannett Co. Inc.
-- George B. Irish retired as president of Hearst Newspapers after 29 years, the last 10 in his current position. Steven R. Swartz was named as his replacement. Irish joined Hearst in 1979 and served as publisher at The Beaumont Enterprise, Midland Reporter-Telegram and the former San Antonio Daily Light.
-- Tom Johnson joined the Lindale News & Times as a staff writer. He is a recent graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
-- Louie Jones is a part time staff writer for The Crane News. He came from the Texas Department of Human Services where he was a staff writer for 26 years.
-- Carl Leubsdorf, the longtime Washington bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News, retired. Leubsdorf will continue to write his column for The News, as he has since starting at the newspaper in 1981.
Todd Gillman, a Washington correspondent with The News, will take over as bureau chief. Gillman joined The News as an intern in 1989.
-- The Liberty Vindicator made some changes recently.
Amy Fowler, who had been on the staff for one year, left. Ginger Jenkins joined the staff. Jenkins spent the last year at the Winnie Hometown Press as publisher. Her past experiences include Houston Community Newspapers and the Houston Chronicle.
-- Desean Lucas is a new general assignment reporter for The Silsbee Bee. He is a December graduate of Lamar University.
-- John Lumpkin will become the new director at Texas Christian University’s Schieffer School of Journalism June 1.
Lumpkin worked in Richmond, Va., and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram before joining The Associated Press in 1971. Since then, he served as a correspondent and bureau chief in Texas, North Carolina and Iowa before becoming a corporate officer in 2003 as AP’s vice president for newspaper markets in the U.S. and Latin America.
Tommy Thomason was the founding director of the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism. He currently is in the process of setting up a new center in the Schieffer School, the Texas Center for Community Journalism. Thomason is director of the Texas Newspaper Foundation/TCU Journalism Shortcourses.
-- Sean McCrory is the new managing editor at the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung. He previously was managing editor at The Town Talk in Alexandria, La., and worked in Florida. He started his career at The Beaumont Enterprise as a copy editor and rose through the ranks to news editor.
-- Clay Morgan left the Aransas Pass Progress and Ingleside Index as publisher to move to Tennessee.
-- Sally Sexton joined the Weatherford Democrat as sports writer. Sexton comes to the Democrat from the Palestine Herald-Press where she covered high school sports.
-- The San Angelo Standard-Times started the new year with a new publisher after Robert Aguilar retired Dec. 31, 2008.
Rebekah Brackin started as publisher Jan. 1. Brackin was general manager since summer 2008 and joined the staff in 2000, holding various roles over the years.
-- Robin Scott is the new police reporter for the Dalhart Texan. She has been a columnist and an attorney and received her law degree in 1999 from South Texas College of Law.
-- The Tyler Morning Telegraph announced two staff changes.
Brian Pearson has been named business editor. Pearson was formerly assistant managing editor of The Beaumont Enterprise.
Allyson Reynolds Dixon has been hired as assistant news editor. Dixon most recently was news editor of the McComb (Miss.) Enterprise-Journal.
-- Keven Ann Willey joined the Pulitzer Prize board. She is vice president and editorial page editor for The Dallas Morning News. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:50 )
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