Changes at the top?
I normally skip completely over ads, so I'm three days late in noticing a box on A2 about a "coffee with the editors" scheduled for tomorrow and soliciting ideas and input for improving the paper. Fine idea.
What strikes me is that Exec Editor Ben Hansen's picture isn't in the ad, but that of formerly retired editor Karen DeSpain is, slugged as an editor, and she doesn't appear on the masthead. I smell change afoot. Karen is well regarded in the community and has been missed since she left the paper.
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A call to the paper tells me Ben is on leave (medical again?) and Karen has been helping part time for more than a year two days a week.
Thanks for checking into that and sharing!
You're welcome. She started helping after the paper parted ways with their prior News Editor (still vacant) and the former City Editor. Knowing how the economy has hit all newspapers, it's gotta be money.
Karen's the bomb!
Ben had a hip replacement. Karen had been part-time (see arts section) but is full-time at the moment. Oh, that it was full-time permanently...
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