Published: September 23, 1999
Last Updated: November 09, 1999
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ASNE on the move

Tal Campbell retired as executive editor of The News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, and has taken on new challenges as director of public information at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. Frank Caperton, executive editor of The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, has announced that he will retire at the end of the year. The afternoon News will close on Oct. 1. Wanda Garner Cash is now editor and publisher of The Baytown (Texas) Sun. She left the executive editor position at The Brazosport Facts in Clute, Texas. Southern Newspapers owns both properties. Jimmy Denley has moved to The Commercial Appeal in Memphis where he is director of new media. He had been editor of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News. Jim Godbold has been promoted to the new position of executive editor of The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore. He had been managing editor. J. Ford Huffman is now deputy managing editor/graphics and photo at USA Today. He had been managing editor/features, graphics and photo for Gannett News Service. Joe Karius, former publisher of the Brookings (S.D.) Daily Register, is now publisher of The Bennington (Vt.) Banner. At The Buffalo (N.Y.) News, Murray Light has his retirement. On Sept. 20, Margaret Sullivan, currently the paper's managing editor, will replace Light as editor. Retired member Joe Stroud, former editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, has been appointed interim director of the Gerald Ford Institute for Public Policy and Service at Albion College in Albion, Mich.