Published: September 23, 1999
Last Updated: September 23, 1999
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ASNE members on the move

Bill Burleigh, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Co., has also been elected chairman. At The Brazosport Facts in Clute, Texas, Wanda Garner Cash has been promoted from managing editor to executive editor. Judy Pace Christie has resigned as executive editor of Florida Today in Melbourne. She will stay in Florida for the time being, do some work for Gannett and continue as chair of ASNE’s Ethics and Values Committee. David Cooper, associate editor of the  Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal retired in March. In New Orleans, Malcolm Forsyth, editorial page editor of The Times-Picayune, announced that he would retire at the end of the year. Donald Holt retired in April. He had been editor of New York’s Journal of Commerce. Ed Kelley will stay in Oklahoma City as editorial director of The Daily Oklahoman. He had been managing editor of the paper and was expected to return to the paper’s Washington bureau. Also at the Oklahoman, Mike Perry became metro editor. He had been editor of The Spectrum in St. George, Utah. Ted Natt, former editor and publisher of The Daily News in Longview, Wash., will move to the retired rolls following the sale of the paper to Howard Publications. He will have an office at the paper for the next year and will fulfill his duties as Nominations Committee chair. Randy Hammer is the new executive editor at the Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal. He had held the same position at another Gannett property, the Springfield (Mo.) News-Sun. Hammer replaced Teresa Wasson who returned to Tennessee for personal reasons. In Ohio, Ellen Stein Burbach is now editor of the Sunday Magazine of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. She was previously director of editorial product development for Thomson Newspapers. Ben Taylor continues as chairman of the Globe Newspaper Company, while a new publisher has been named at The Boston Globe. Taylor had been publisher since 1997. Bob Unger is now editor-in-chief of Community Newspaper Company’s Metro Unit in Needham, Mass. He had been executive editor of the St. Joseph (Mo.) News-Press. In Emporia, Kansas, Barbara Walker moved from editor to senior editor. And at the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, Jim Witt, executive editor, takes on additional responsibilities as publisher of the Arlington edition.