Joe Keohane will be stepping down as editor next month and will be replaced by current music/food/commerce editor Michael Brodeur, the Dig announced today. "Running this zoo has been enormously fun," says Keohane, "but I've always said that turnover is key to keeping an alt-weekly fresh, and Brodeur's the guy for the job." The Dig also announced that staff writer Paul McMorrow will be promoted to news and features editor; Jim Stanton has been hired "to rehabilitate the paper's disastrously bad website;" and Salon.com writer Cintra Wilson will soon begin contributing a semimonthly celebrity column.
Eyeballs popped at Portland's largest alt-weekly when the amount of money raised by its fundraising drive approached a quarter of a million dollars. This outpouring of beneficence was a product of the paper's "Give!Guide," which supports local non-profits by encouraging philanthropy among readers 35 and under. "We never expected anything like this," says Publisher Richard Meeker. "Obviously, this says a lot about our readers -- and Portland."
Ralph Routon, 54, a columnist and editor at the Colorado Springs Gazette for 24 years, will return to his adopted hometown to take the position of executive editor at the Pikes Peak region's alternative newspaper. Since leaving the area in 2001, Routon spent the past five years as an editor at daily newspapers in Florida and Texas. He will assume his new position in January, according to a release from the Independent.
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