Published: May 21, 1998
Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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ASNE on the move

Richard Allport, executive editor of The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, will return to the corporate office of Morris Communications as assistant to the president. Brian Toolan, former managing editor of The Philadelphia Daily News, is now editor of The Hartford (Conn.) Courant. He replaces David Barrett, who resigned back in September. Jimmy Denley is the new editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News, a paper recently acquired by Scripps-Howard. He had been editor and president of the Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald. Retired member Reg Murphy, former publisher of The Sun, Baltimore, has resigned his position as chief executive of the National Geographic Society effective in March. He will remain vice chairman of the society. Calvin Stovall is now managing editor of the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J. He had been at Gannett headquarters. Jim Crutchfield left the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, Calif., when the sale of the paper by Knight-Ridder to Garden State Newspapers/ MediaNews Group was completed. Andy Glass, former chief of Cox Newspapers’ Washington bureau, has become senior correspondent for Cox. Mike Phillips was promoted to publisher of The Sun, Bremerton, Wash. He had been editor. David Jones, assistant managing editor of The New York Times, has retired. And Addie Rimmer, editor of the Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera until it was traded to Scripps-Howard, is now deputy managing editor/ news at the Detroit Free Press.