Last Updated: May 26, 1999
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ASNE on the move
ASNE people
Josette Shiner, managing editor of The Washington Times, has
resigned to become president of Empower America, a conservative advocacy
group founded by Jack Kemp and William Bennett.
Former Washington bureau chief for Thomson Newspapers Bill Sternberg
has a new job. He is Washington editor for USA Today. Two ASNE members
are leaving their jobs after their newspapers changed hands: Susan H.
Miller, editor and president, The Monterey County (Calif.) Herald and
E. Donald Lass, editor, publisher and president, Asbury Park
Press, Neptune, N.J. Lass will continue in ASNE as a retired member.
FOI Committee chair Stan Tiner, editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Register
spoke on free press issues in July at the National Judicial College. ASNE
provides media speakers three times a year for the program that has trained
federal judges for many years. A grant from The Freedom Forum covers the
editors’ travel expenses. Tim Gallagher, editor of the Ventura County
(Calif.) Star.
The Philadelphia Inquirer dedicated its newly created newsroom to Gene
Foreman. The newsroom is now located in a high-ceilinged area where
the newspaper’s presses were formerly housed. The dedication plaque reads,
"This newsroom is dedicated to Gene Foreman, the editor whose the standard
for The Philadelphia Inquirer for two and a half decades. He defined excellence
for us and for our profession." Foreman has announced his plans to leave
the Philadelphia Inquirer in the fall of 1998 to teach journalism at Penn
State University.
The National Association of Minority Media Executives (NAMME) presented
its Catalyst Trophy to Sacramento (Calif.) Bee executive editor Gregory
Favre, a former president of ASNE. ASNE Diversity Director Veronica
Jennings has been selected to receive the Black College Communications
Association’s Merv Aubespin Award.
ASNE treasurer Rich Oppel was roughed up by a homeless man as
the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman editor was taking an early morning
jog in July on an isolated trail a few miles from his office. Oppel, who
was not seriously injured except for his ego, jogged on to a phone, called
the police, and a suspect was arrested. The Society’s treasurer had no
ASNE funds with him at the time of the incident.
