Published: July 01, 2000
Last Updated: August 18, 2000
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ASNE on the move

A bunch of member news to catch up on

Since the April issue was devoted to design and the May/June issue featured new members, we’ve got some catching up to do. Pardon us if some of this seems like really old news — we didn’t want to leave anyone out.

On the retirement page ...

H.D.S. Greenway, editor of the editorial page, The Boston Globe; John Lyst, editor, The Indianapolis Star, Arnold Rosenfeld, editor-in-chief, Cox Newspapers, Atlanta; Walter Rugaber, publisher, The Roanoke (Va.) Times, retiring Dec. 1; and Richard Wesnick, editor emeritus, Billings (Mont.) Gazette.

New jobs, new cities ...

John Carroll to editor of the Los Angeles Times from editor of The Sun, Baltimore; Cole Campbell, from editor, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, to fellow, The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Dennis Lyons, from executive editor of The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., to executive editor of the Daily Record, Parsippany, N.J.; David Petty from executive editor, The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson, Miss., to president and publisher, Hattiesburg (Miss.) American; Michael Phillips, publisher, The Sun, Bremerton, Wash., to director of editorial development, E.W. Scripps Co., Cincinnati; Vikki Porter, now executive director, Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Southern California, from executive editor, The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif.; Neil Reynolds, editor-in-chief, The Ottawa (Ontario) Citizen, to editor-in-chief, The Vancouver (B.C.) Sun; Steve Smith, now editor of the Statesman Journal, Salem, Ore., formerly editor of The Gazette, Colorado Springs; Vivienne Sosnowski to editor-in-chief, The Province, Vancouver, B.C., from managing editor at The Vancouver Sun; Stan Tiner to executive editor, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., from executive editor of The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City; and Gary West to opinion page and business editor, The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif., from editor, The Porterville (Calif.) Recorder.

New titles, same cities ...

Tom Bolton, from managing editor to executive editor, Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; Mark Bowden, managing editor, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to executive editor; Timothy Franklin, executive editor to editor, The Indianapolis Star; Timothy Gallagher, editor of the Ventura County (Calif.) Star, added president to his duties; William German, editor to editor emeritus, San Francisco Chronicle; Karla Garrett Harshaw, editor, Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun, also becomes senior editor, Cox Newspapers, supervising smaller dailies; William Marimow, managing editor to editor, The Sun, Baltimore; Michael Parks, editor to senior editor, Los Angeles Times; Kenneth Robertson, managing editor to executive editor, The Tri-City Herald, Tri-Cities, Wash.; Joseph Visci, assistant vice president of operations and assistant to the chairman and CEO to vice president of operations, Knight Ridder, San Jose, Calif.; Jonathan Wolman, managing editor to executive editor, The Associated Press, New York; Michael Zamba, special assistant to the president to director of international development, The Dallas Morning News, Mexico City.

Moving on in New York ...

William Ahearn, former executive editor, The Associated Press; Debby Krenek, former editor in chief, Daily News.

2 retired members die ...

Earl English, 95, on April 11. He joined ASNE in 1956 as a distinguished service member while dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He retired in 1970. Charlotte Saikowski, 73, on April 8. She joined ASNE in 1974 while chief editorial writer for The Christian Science Monitor. Saikowski was later made Washington bureau chief, a position she left in 1989.