Howard Witt has resigned as editor of Washington City Paper, effective Nov. 16. “Please join me in congratulating Howard,” Jane Levine, publisher of City Paper's parent Chicago Reader Inc., says in a memo to staff. "The search will take as long as it takes to find a good editor," Levine says. Meanwhile, Associate Editor Richard Byrne has been named interim editor. MORE: The Washington Post reports Friday morning that Witt is leaving to take a job covering the State Department for the Chicago Tribune.
Independent Weekly names David Madison editor. Madison is a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., and a veteran alt-weekly writer and editor. Publisher Sioux Watson says the only person happier about the hire than the Indy staff is Madison’s mama, who is glad her boy is coming home.
Alternative newsweeklies are feeling the one-two punch of war and recession. National advertising is down across the board, but classifieds are providing a cushion. While several papers have had to lay off employees, others are taking the opportunity to add sales staff.
Seattle Weekly fires a production employee over a campaign prank, the Seattle Times reports (second item). Plastering the news editor's office with campaign posters was the offense.
Pittsburgh City Paper has hired at least five former In Pittsburgh employees since its parent company bought the rival alternative newsweekly last month. It is also looking at picking up some of the closed paper's regular contributors and syndicated material.
In an unsigned column, Fort Worth Weekly bids farewell to its "fiercely independent and damn-the-torpedoes" editor John Forsyth, who was fired this week by new owner Lee Newquist. "We can only hope that Lee Newquist will make good on his promise to support the same kind of gutsy journalism that Forsyth did," says the author(s).
Voas, the highly decorated former editor of Phoenix New Times, takes over the editorial helm in Detroit on Oct. 22. Working under Voas, New Times writers won the past seven consecutive Journalists of the Year awards in Arizona, and also won the state's top investigative reporting prize for five consecutive years.
In an internal memo posted on Jim Romenesko's Media News Web site, Metro Newspapers asks its staff members for feedback on a proposed 5% pay cut, which it says is necessary to reduce the need for layoffs. According to the memo, company officers have already taken a 20% reduction in compensation, and top managers voted to cut their own pay by 10%.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Replaces Founding Editor John Forsyth.
Declining ad revenues have hit New Times, forcing layoffs at several papers, including five at Miami New Times. “This year has been a dizzying year for all of us,” Editor Jim Mullin tells the Daily Business Review. The local business journal also reports that the Miami paper has rehired former publisher Michael Cohen, who recently resigned his post at New York Press.
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