Last Updated: May 20, 1999
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ASNE on the move
Diane McFarlin, executive editor of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune,
has been elected ASNE’s treasurer-designate. She will become treasurer
of the Society in April and will rise through the officer ranks to head
ASNE beginning in April 2002.
McFarlin has been a member of ASNE since 1987 and has chaired a number
of ASNE’s key committees, including Education for Journalism, Literacy,
and Freedom of Information. She currently chairs the Society’s Ethics and
Values Committee, which oversees the largest project in ASNE’s history,
the Journalism Credibility Project. She was elected to the ASNE board in
1994.
Before becoming executive editor of the Herald-Tribune in 1990, McFarlin
was executive editor of The Gainesville (Fla.) Sun. Prior to that, she
worked in various positions — including managing editor, features editor
and city editor — at the Herald-Tribune and its former sister paper, the
Sarasota (Fla.) Journal.
McFarlin is a Florida native and a graduate of the University of Florida.
She has headed several Florida-centered initiatives, including one to educate
the public on the importance of public records.
She is former president of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors,
and has served as a visiting professor of journalism.
