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‘Job changes’ archive

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today: Indianapolis Star’s Scott Goldman joining Advance Digital in New Jersey (1)

Scott Goldman announced today he is stepping down as director of digital and visuals at the Indianapolis Star and to take a position with Advance Publications’ digital team in New Jersey. Here is the email Scott sent out to the visuals team today: Before the news goes out to the whole room, I have to let you know that I [...]

May 8: Roanoke Times’ night sports editor Carrie Cousins leaves newspapers (1)

Carrie Cousins — night sports editor of the Times of Roanoke, Va. — is leaving newspapers. Here’s the official announcement that presentation editor Andrew Svec put out last week: After more than 10 years in our newsroom, Carrie Cousins has decided to take on a new challenge with the Roanoke Regional Partnership where she will be able to write more, [...]

May 8: Lee Enterprises’ Will Sullivan takes government agency job in D.C.

Will Sullivan — director of mobile news for Lee Enterprises in St. Louis, Mo., and the co-director of last October’s Society for News Design workshop there — is leaving newspapers. He posted in his blog last night: I’m leaving Lee Enterprises to work for the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Office of Digital and Design Innovation as their Mobile Products Manager in [...]

May 3: College design standout Greg Mees headed for Boston Globe (1)

Greg Mees of the Rocky Mountain Collegian — the student newspaper at Colorado State University — posts on his Facebook timeline today: After three incredible years, today is my last day on the Rocky Mountain Collegian‘s design desk. It’s been one hell of a ride. Greg will be back to school, eventually, of course. He was originally scheduled to be [...]

May 1: Boston Globe promotes Javier Zarracina to graphics director (1)

Last week: David Schutz — deputy design director for graphics and news at the Boston Globe — announced he was leaving the Globe to become design director of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. On the heels of that move, assistant managing editor Dan Zedek announced to the staff of the Boston Globe: I’m very pleased to share some good news with [...]

April 26: Boston Globe’s David Schutz named design director in Fort Lauderdale

David Schutz — deputy design director for graphics and news at the Boston Globe — wrote overnight to tell us he’s… …leaving to become design director of the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida. Below is the note that Dan Zedek sent out to the Globe staff to make it official. I’ll start in Ft. Lauderdale at the end of May. After [...]

April 24: Orlando Sentinel’s Karen Bellville Beaman leaving the newspaper business

Print and online designer Karen Bellville Beaman is leaving the Orlando Sentinel for the world of academia. Todd Stewart — the Sentinel‘s head of interactive content — announced today: I’m sorry to announce that graphic artist Karen Bellville Beaman is leaving the Sentinel to become an Associate Course Director for Design & Computer Graphics at Full Sail University. Her last [...]

April 20: St. Louis überblogger, social media maven Erica Smith leaving newspapers

Longtime newspaper print designer, blogger — and, most recently, social media editor — Erica Smith has left the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she reports. She tells us: Friday the 13th was my last day at the Post-Dispatch. This week I started at Infuz. It’s an incredible place and an incredible opportunity. I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am [...]

April 18: Ball State grad Amy Olding moving to Munster, Ind., Times

Amy Olding — the graphics reporter and artist for the Springfield, Mo., News-Leader who put together a wonderful interactive map after last year’s devastating tornado in Joplin, Mo. — is moving on. She announced on her Facebook wall recently: Joe and I will be Hoosiers again soon. I have accepted a position at the Times of Northwest Indiana as a [...]

April 17: Former St. Pete Times design manager Patty Cox moving to the Weather Channel

Patty Cox — longtime editor and design manager for the then-St. Petersburg Times and who stepped down five months ago — has a new job. She announced on her Facebook wall today: My next chapter: digital content manager for The Weather Channel. I start next Monday. Launched in 1982, the Weather Channel is headquartered near Smyrna, Ga., in the northwest [...]

April 6: Bonita Burton named director of communications for retirement community chain

Bonita Burton — a longtime visuals editor at the Orange County Register, the San Jose Mercury News and the Orlando Sentinel and laid off by the Sentinel two months ago — has a new job. Bo wrote via Facebook late last night: When I was 9, my dad asked me to accompany him on a sudden trip out of town. [...]

April 1: Fred Matamoros now working for Texas-based design firm (1)

Former newspaper illustrator and designer Fred Matamoros — who left the world of newspapers for magazines nearly two years ago — has taken a new job. Fred tells us: My new position is as a Graphic Artist/Illustrator at John Perez Graphics & Design in Richardson, Texas. For over 25 years they’ve specialized in creating geoscience graphics, mapping, brochures, logos, schematics [...]

March 27: Meet the new GateHouse ‘design house’ managers (5)

GateHouse Media — in the process of centralizing all design and editing functions of its entire chain of newspapers into two locations in Rockford, Ill. and in Framingham, Mass. — has named directors for each.   On the left is Conor Plunkett, director of the Framingham facility, where GateHouse’s weekly and small daily newpapers will be edited and designed. On [...]

March 22: amNewYork’s Christopher Sabatini to join People magazine

Christopher Sabatini — design director at New York City tabloid amNewYork –tells us: Starting Tuesday I will be at People magazine. I know I will be designing some part of the magazine and do some tablet stuff. But to be honest, I went in having applied for one thing and walked out having been told I would be doing a [...]

March 22: Indy Star’s Kathleen O’Malley moving to Chicago Tribune

Kathleen O’Malley — A1 news editor for the Indianapolis Star for the past four years — is moving on. Kathleen posted last night on her Facebook wall Well, word’s bound to spread now that I’ve told a few people in the newsroom, so … I’ll be leaving The Indianapolis Star to take a job as a copy editor at The [...]

March 22: Lexington’s Brian Malasics named copy desk chief for the Virginian-Pilot

Brian Malasics, a copy editor and page designer with the Herald-Leader of Lexington, Ky., has been hired as copy desk chief of the Virginian-Pilot. Born and raised in Altoona, Pa., Brian graduated from Penn State University in 2004. He served a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internship that year at the Herald-Leader and never left. Last year, Brian wrote a nice [...]

March 19: Huntsville designer Bethany Bickley moving to the Virginian-Pilot (1)

Bethany Bickley — a brilliantly talented designer and illustrator for the Huntsville (Ala.) Times – is moving to Norfolk, Va., to join the staff of the Virginian-Pilot. She announced today via Facebook: It’s official! I’ve accepted a news design position at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk and will start in 3 weeks. I’m thankful for all that I have learned in [...]

March 16: Longtime newspaper copy editor Pam Nelson leaving newspapers

Board member Andy Bechtel of the American Copy Editors Society and a former News & Observer colleague of both Pam and myself writes today: Pam Nelson is taking a new job. Starting on April 2, she’ll be a copy editor for publications at the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She’ll work from the Durham office. A 1976 graduate of [...]

March 16: Sean McKeown-Young named Wisconsin team leader for Gannett’s Des Moines studio

Sean McKeown-Young named Wisconsin team leader for Gannett’s new Des Moines Design Studio. Sean begins work Monday, he tells us. He posted late Thursday on his Facebook wall: Is it just coincidence that I’m moving Louisville, Kentucky to Iowa on the same day that Kentucky faces Iowa in Louisville? Nathan Groepper, creative director of the Des Moines studio announced today: [...]

March 16: Emilio Rabago returning to the San Antonio Express-News

Emilio Rabago of Gannett’s Design Studio in Nashville, Tenn., is returning to the San Antonio Express-News. Emilio departed the Express-News in 2009 after taking a buyout. Emilio tells us: This week I’m helping with the launch of the Montgomery Advertiser‘s sports/features section here in the Nashville Design Studio. Next week, I am back in San Antonio at the Express-News as a [...]

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