Elaine Nall Bay, the Old News columnist for the Rains County Leader and Rains Junior High librarian, retired after moving to Wylie. She had written the column for six years.

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The Cleburne Times-Review received the American Red Cross Chisholm Trail Chapter’s Media Appreciation Award Sept. 20 at its annual meeting in Fort Worth. The award a media recognizes coverage and promotion of the Red Cross on an ongoing basis.

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Jack Cowan has retired as editorial page editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times. Cowan had been with the Standard-Times for 33 years, the past 14 years in charge of the paper’s editorial page. He and his wife, Peggy, plan to spend more time with her father. But he will remain on the newspaper’s editorial board and will write a weekly column.

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Roy J. Eaton recently received the Texas Christian University Schieffer School of Journalism Ethics Award at the school’s Journalism Exes breakfast.

Eaton, who graduated from TCU in 1959, is president and publisher of the Wise County Messenger.

The Schieffer School Ethics Award, which has been given since 1968, is awarded to individuals in mass communications who show outstanding ethical leadership and commitment to high ethical standards.

Eaton’s newspaper has won more than 150 awards since he became publisher. He is a former president of the National Newspaper Association, Texas Press Association (1987-88), the Texas Newspaper Foundation and the Fort Worth chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Phil Record, professional in residence in journalism and chair of the Schieffer School ethics award committee, said Eaton “demonstrates all the ethical markers of journalism.”

“Roy evidences credibility, integrity and civility,” Record said. “He has proved that he is worthy to join the ranks of the virtuous and ethical journalists selected by the Schieffer School for this award.”

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Daun Eierdam became the editor of the Joshua Star for the third time. Eierdam was editor of the paper’s forerunner Joshua Tribune in the 1990s and was Star editor in 1998.

Eierdam replaced Sherree Gable.

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Sandra Enriquez-Ortiz has become a full-time Newspaper In Education coordinator at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. She previously only handled the program part time in addition to marketing duties but the newspaper created a full-time NIE position.

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Brandy Foster has been named assistant editor of the Pflugerville Pflag. She replaced Mel Spencer, who is now a feature writer for the Austin American-Statesman. Prior to joining the Pflag, Foster was the managing editor at the Austin Student Newspaper, a staff editor for the Writer’s Village University Web site and a volunteer transcript editor for the Austin Public Library.

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Greg Jones has joined the Valley Mills Progress as a part-time reporter. Jones has worked as a reporter with the Waco Tribune-Herald, Houston Post and El Paso Times. He also taught journalism at University of Texas-Arlington, Sul Ross State University and UT El Paso.

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Brian Knox, reporter and assistant editor for the Wise County Messenger, was honored by the American Cancer Society with a Texas Media Award for his feature story published earlier this year about Elizabeth Oliver, an 18-year-old breast cancer survivor from Newark who was diagnosed when she was 14.

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John Lumpkin has been named vice president of business operations for The Associated Press, responsible for sales and marketing to U.S. newspapers. He also will oversee the domestic bureau chief system and will continue a portion of his current responsibilities as regional vice president for the South. Lumpkin will continue to be based in Dallas.

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Susan Lynch-Pape will join the San Antonio Express-News as senior vice president of finance in late November after a 15-year stint at KENS-TV. Lynch-Pape will replace I. Fred Mergele Jr., who is to retire at the end

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Jamie Maxfield, former Seguin Gazette-Enterprise managing editor, returned from the mountains of Colorado and rejoined the staff. She left in May to take a job with Focus on the Family. She will serve as the newspaper’s lead designer.

Melissa Johnson also joined the staff to cover education. With the departure of city editor Ashley Matthews to the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, Johnson is now covering the city beat.

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Robert Moore has been named executive editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan. Moore had been executive editor at the El Paso Times, another Gannett Inc. newspaper, for more than 19 years.

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Doug Myers has been named managing editor of the Stephenville Empire-Tribune. He served the past six years as communications director for Louisiana’s superintendent of education, but began his career as a reporter for the Cleburne Times-Review. He also worked at the Texarkana Gazette and in the Capitol Bureau for The (Baton Rouge, La.) Advocate.

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Robert Rivard, San Antonio Express-News executive editor, has penned a book about slain reporter Philip True. “Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True,” published by PublicAffairs Books, explores the life of True, an Express-News reporter who was killed in 1998 while trekking through the dangerous Sierra Madres to report on the isolated Huichol Indian tribe.

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Cassie Swan is the newest staff member for the Hereford Brand. She is the new lifestyles editor and education writer, taking over the position that had been occupied by Karla Abernethy-Thetford, who accepted a position with The Canyon News.

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The team at the Taylor Daily Press has grown by two.

Tessa Streit has been hired as an advertising sales representative and Mike Eddlemann became the managing editor. Eddlemann most recently was editor of the Round Rock Leader.

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Daren Watkins will be associate publisher for The Rowlett Lakeshore Times and free sister paper The Mesquite News. Watkins has been with Star Community Newspapers, the parent company of the News and the Times, for five years. He has most recently served as the company’s group managing editor.