The nation's No. 1 circulation newspaper loves bulleted lists! So, courtesy of your frenemies in the secret world of Gannett Blog, here's the first entrant on my short list of people rumored/angling/being considered to replace departing top editor Ken Paulson:
(Confidential to everyone: You may now lift your jaw off the floor.)
Saturday, December 20, 2008
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Yes, my jaw just dropped.
ReplyDeleteChris Saridakis, rumored because Corporate wants to speed up the shift to Internet publication.
ReplyDeleteBill Sternberg because he is a nice guy?
ReplyDeleteOr how about you, Jim???? Hmmm??? Care to apply?
Might be a smart move for Gannett to squelch the Gannett Blog!!
I just noticed that my post requires approval. Why is it that some posts require approval while others do not? Not being nit-picky, just curious.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said... "Chris Saridakis, rumored because Corporate wants to speed up the shift to Internet publication."
ReplyDeleteSure, name Sari-Dickless to the post. Also, let's see if he has any more goofy businesses that we can buy from him. He is, after all, the company savior, even if his operations all tank right after the check from Gannett clears...
1:13 pm: I require approval when I'm away from my laptop, and can't see comments quickly after they have been posted.
ReplyDeleteIncreasingly, however, I'm requiring approval all the time, because of a handful of readers who abuse the commenting privilege.
Former GNS chief Derek Osinenko is on the short list.
ReplyDeleteMark my words, guaranteed to come from outside company. Simple as that.
ReplyDeleteYou heard it here first: former ME of Life Julia Wallace, currently Editor, Atlanta Journal Constitution.
ReplyDeleteYou're half right. Derek's a longtime exec with GCI but has been outside the company during the most gutwrenching cuts. So he has GCI loyalty going for him but can legitimately claim outside status. Smart move if it's true.
ReplyDeleteYes, Tara on the short list, but Chris would work too. Maybe combine with Phoenix and have a Lovely editor.
ReplyDeleteNah, heading outside company to shake things up.
A million bucks if any of the names mentioned so far are named USAT editor. Not a chance.
ReplyDeleteTara? Hasn't been involved in news for years.
Saridakis? Never in news.
Julia Wallace? What a joke. Her paper's circulation has plunged with breathtaking speed.
Derek Osenenko? Quite a jump from the little Middleton, NY, paper. And he wouldn't want to leave Woodstock, NY.
Get real, people.
Wouldn't be so quick to dismiss Derek as the editor of the Middleton paper.
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I would love to see Tara as editor. There would be some poetic justice to that.
ReplyDeleteThe best editor in the company is Bennie Ivory but I wonder if he'd really leave Louisville to take on something like this at this stage in his life.
ReplyDeleteOthers....
Randy Lovely?
Terry Eberle?
Mark Silverman?
Kate Marymount?
Jennifer Carroll?
I've heard Jennifer Carroll's name, too. For what it's worth, though, I am told that Paulson favors John Hillkirk.
ReplyDeleteHillkirk might well be the best-qualified person on the planet. But it speaks volumes about Gannett's budget crisis that Craig Moon might choose Hillkirk as much to save money (he could promote John while simultaneously eliminating the executive editor's job, and salary) as to get the best person in that position.
Osenenko would be a fabulous choice. He would immediately outclass every single editor in the building and teach them how to treat people right.
ReplyDeleteI'll second that. Even when he was head of GNS, Derek was pretty much the only corporate level executive who cared about the people he worked with.
ReplyDeleteYou heard it hear first: Jim Brady, just resigned as editor of washingtonpost.com today.
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