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‘Job changes’ archive

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May 8: Steve Dorsey named VP of innovation and planning for Austin American-Statesman

Tuesday, longtime visuals leader Steve Dorsey was named vice president of innovation and planning for the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman. For the past three years, Steve has been vice president for research and development of the Detroit Media Joint Operating Agreement that owns the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. His last day there will be May 17. Steve posted [...]

April 29: Fargo Forum’s Bill Wambeke moving to Des Moines’ Gannett Design Studio

Nathan Groepper, creative director of the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines, emailed his staff Friday: I am thrilled to announce the Design Studio has hired Bill Wambeke. Bill has earned attention from around the country for his creative work as Presentation Editor of the Forum in Fargo, N.D. You can find a portfolio of his pages here. Many of [...]

April 29: Kevin Wendt moving to Advance Digital corporate

Longtime visuals editor Kevin Wendt  — who’s spent the past several years as editor of the Huntsville (Ala.) Times and the past year as vice president of content for Advance Communications’ Alabama Media Group — is moving to corporate at Advance Digital. AL.com — the online arm of Advance’s Alabama and Mississippi-based publications — reported Friday: In his new role, [...]

April 11: Andy Rohrback of Ames, Iowa, joins Gannett’s Des Moines design studio (1)

Nathan Groepper — creative director of the Gannett Design Studio in Des Moines — announced Wednesday: I am thrilled to announce the Design Studio has hired Andy Rohrback. Andy was most recently the design director for the Ames Tribune and has designed pages for the Omaha World-Herald and Colorado Springs Gazette. Andy will start with the Wisconsin Team before moving [...]

April 11: Bill Wachsberger to return to the Baltimore Sun

The last four years has taken him to the other side of the Southeast. But Bill Wachsberger will soon return to Baltimore, where he spent the majority of his career. Bill posted on Facebook Wednesday: I am happy to announce I will be heading BACK to the Baltimore Sun as design director come early May! Looking forward to the reunion! [...]

March 29: Gannett’s Nashville studio hires new creative director

Ted Power, director of Gannett’s design studios in Des Moines and Nashville, announced this week: I’m pleased to announce that David Anesta, Features Team Leader in the Asbury Park Design Studio, will be the new Creative Director at the Nashville Design Studio. David will begin in Nashville on April 16. David has been with the Asbury Design Studio since March [...]

March 29: Billy Kulpa leaves journalism… again.

I don’t mean for that headline to seem snarky. I like Billy Kulpa — the deputy design director of the Lee Enterprises production hub in Munster, Ind. — quite a bit. But this is the second time in just over two years that I’ve written this post. So I think I’ll let Billy write it this time… Charles, I’m writing [...]

March 13: Alan Formby-Jackson moves from digital side back into print

Alan Formby-Jackson — multimedia desk editor for the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough, England — is changing jobs but not really changing locations, he tells us. Alan wrote on his Facebook timeline last week: After 14 and a bit years I’m finally leaving the Gazette… well, kind of. I’ll be working for Trinity Mirror’s new Shared Content Unit in Liverpool, but [...]

March 3: Amy Huschka named assistant editor for social media at the Detroit Free Press

Longtime Detroit Free Press print designer Amy Huschka — who moved over to the digital side less than four months ago — has been promoted. Assistant managing editor for digital Stephanie Murray announced Friday: We’re happy to announce that  Amy Huschka has been promoted to Assistant Editor/Social Media. In this new role, Amy will oversee social media for the Free [...]

March 2: Jeff Glick joins Advance’s Alabama Media Group (1)

Jennifer Conklin — director of publications for Advance’s Alabama Media Group — forwards an announcement she made Friday: I’m thrilled to announce that Jeff Glick will be joining the Publications Hub as our Statewide Publications Manager. He will start on Monday, March 4. Jeff was most recently the director of Gannett’s Nashville Design Studio which he helped launch. He is [...]

Feb. 22: Charles Apple moving to the Orange County Register (52)

Hey, guess what? I have a job. A real, live job. Seriously. After 52 months of unemployment — and barely scraping by with a little consulting work — I’ve been hired by the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, Calif. I’ll be editor and designer of the Register‘s daily Focus page, which takes a look at a variety of topics [...]

Feb. 13: Out of newspapers for four years, Jann Nyffeler to run Syracuse copy desk

Longtime copy editor Jann Nyffeler — laid off by Gannett’s Rochester newspaper in 2009 — is returning to newspapers. Jann has been named production leader for the Syracuse Post-Standard, which is moving to a three-days-a-week production schedule. She’ll be supervising a nightside desk of copy editors and paginators. A 1988 graduate of the University of Nebraska, Jann spent eight years [...]

Jan. 31: Fred Matamoros re-enters newspapers with the Orange County Register (1)

Longtime graphics editor and illustrator Fred Matamoros — who left newspapers in 2010 — is back in the game: He’s been hired as a senior artist by the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, Calif. Fred tells us: This coming Monday, Feb. 4, is my return to journalism! I’ve accepted a great offer to join the Orange County Register in [...]

Jan. 30: Orange County Register’s Daniel Hunt moving to Sacramento

Daniel Hunt — for the past three years, a designer and copy editor for the Orange County Register — is moving to the Sacramento Bee. Bee executive editor Joyce Terhaar wrote in a column on Jan. 13 announcing a number of hires that visual journalist Nathaniel Levine — who’s been promoted to “multiplatform news editor” — will… …be working closely [...]

Jan. 25: Louisville Design Studio’s Larrisa Turner returns to Lafayette, Ind. (1)

Larrisa Turner of the Louisville Design Studio has returned to her previous paper, the Journal & Courier of Lafayette, Ind. A 2007 graduate of Purdue University, Larrisa spent two-and-a-half years as a copy editor for the Journal & Courier before moving to Gannett’s Louisville hub last April. She tells us: My new title is copy desk editor at the Journal [...]

Jan. 25: Lenoir’s John Josey moving to Berkshire Hathaway hub in Hickory, N.C.

John Josey — managing editor of the News-Topic of Lenoir, N.C. — is changing jobs and small North Carolina towns, he reported via Facebook Thursday. John tells us: I’m joining the Consolidated Editing Center based in Hickory, which puts me back into the world of page design. Lenoir’s pagination transitioned to Paxton’s hub in Owensboro, Ky., early last spring. I’ve [...]

Jan. 23: Another nice promotion for a former print designer

Pattie Reaves, web editor for the Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine, has been named digital platforms manager for the entire Sun Media Group, the company announced Tuesday. A story published last night by the Sun Journal reports: In her new position, Reaves will be the spokesperson and advocate for all digital platforms at Sun Media Group. She will be primarily [...]

Jan. 22: With work moving to a design studio, Indianapolis Star moves some print designers to digital team (1)

Old news: The Indianapolis Star is now joining the Gannett Design Studio network. All print design functions are in the process of moving to the Louisville studio. New news: The Star has now selected which newsroom staffers will be assigned new jobs in the paper’s digital operation, which is led by former Star graphics director Jennifer Imes. Among those staying [...]

Jan. 21: Doug Jessmer hired by the Villages (Fla.) Daily Sun

Designer and graphic artist Doug Jessmer is joining the staff of the Villages Daily Sun — in the Villages, an enormous retirement community about an hour north of Orlando — as a senior designer. This is the fast-growing paper that hired Bonita Burton — former assistant managing editor of the Orlando Sentinel — late last year to serve as executive [...]

Jan. 17: Newark presentation editor Shawn Weston moves to Advance Digital

Shawn Weston, presentation editor for the Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger is moving to Advance Digital, where he’ll be “a designer and print architect”. He begins his new job next Tuesday, I’m told. Shawn Weston (right) and his Star-Ledger colleagues work out of a conference room at the Hyatt Morristown in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy last October. — A 2002 graduate [...]

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