Catching up...

Members in new places missed deadline for the last few issues. We had a lot of changes during that time, but many are old news and won’t be covered here. Sorry if someone feels left out! Picking up with things that have happened in 2001 . . .

Deaths...

Longtime member John D. Paulson died Jan. 21. He was 85. Paulson joined ASNE in 1957 while editor of The Forum in Fargo, a position he retired from in 1981.

Former attorney general and secretary of state William Rogers, died Jan. 2. He was the second ASNE counsel. He resigned as counsel to be secretary of state under Richard Nixon in 1968. He was succeeded as ASNE counsel by Dick Schmidt.

The first counsel was Harold Cross, a noted First Amendment lawyer and Columbia University law professor.

Rogers argued two important libel and First Amendment cases, New York Times v. Sullivan and The Associated Press v. Walker, before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was, and his firm remains, counsel to the AP.

He also played an important role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

New jobs...

Tom Conner, formerly editor of the Northwest Florida Daily News in Fort Walton Beach, has moved to publisher of The Porterville (Calif.) Recorder. Both papers are Freedom properties. Terry Eberle is now editor of The Indianapolis Star. He had been executive editor of the News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla. In Honolulu, John Flanagan will become editor in chief of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin when the paper’s sale to Oahu Publications is completed in March. Flanagan was editor and publisher of the Star-Bulletin until recently, when he resigned to work for the company purchasing the paper. Loren Ghiglione, 1989-90 ASNE president, becomes dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University at the end of this semester. He is currently director of the University of Southern California’s School of Journalism in Los Angeles. Bill Ketter, president of ASNE in 1995-96, has returned to The Boston Globe as vice president/community relations and assistant to the publisher. After leaving The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., Ketter did a stint as acting op-ed editor of the Globe before becoming chairman of the journalism department at Boston University, where he will continue to teach a class. In Chicago, Ann Marie Lipinski is now editor of the Tribune, replacing Howard Tyner who will devote himself fulltime to duties as vice president/editor for the Tribune Co. Lipinski ascended from managing editor to executive editor last summer. Bob Ritter has returned to Olympia, Wash., as editor and publisher of The Olympian, a position he held in the ‘80s. Most recently he was editor and vice president of news at The Journal News, White Plains, N.Y. George Rodrigue, former executive editor of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., is now vice president of the Washington bureau of Belo, owner of the paper. Ellen Soeteber is now editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She had been managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale.

Correction

On page 17 of the September issue of The American Editor, the source for the contact list of educators who attended API 2000 inadvertently omitted Kathleen Wickham, Assistant Professor of journalism at The University of Mississippi, kwickham@olemiss.edu.