Queen joins Cole Group as consultant

Queen, most recently an executive with Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., will handle consulting chores along with Mike Middlesworth and myself.

The Cole Group has provided newspapers, magazines and wire services with assistance in identifying, purchasing and installing computer technology since 1989.

"I am confident my background in newspaper systems, sales, training, development and systems management will compliment Dave's and Mike's backgrounds," said Queen.

Middlesworth, the former executive editor and business manager of the Honolulu Advertiser, has been working with publishers through The Cole Group since 1993.

Before his four-year affiliation with Managing Editor, Queen handled system integration for Tab Newspapers, a group of weeklies in Newton, Mass., and started TabTech, a consulting firm that was a division of the newspaper group. Previously, Queen was a production manager for a variety of publications and advertising agencies in the greater Boston area.

A popular speaker, Queen has made presentations at the New England Press Association, America East, the Seybold seminars, the Association of Free Community Newspapers, the Folio magazine conferences and the American Newspaper Layout Managers Association.

The Cole Group is an independent consulting organization, working exclusively for publishing companies. The Cole Group will not work for suppliers that sell directly to publishers, nor does it sell hardware or software.

Recent Cole Group clients include El Nuevo Dia of San Juan, P.R., the Kingsport (Tenn.) Times-News, the Los Angeles Daily News and the Monterey (Calif.) County Herald.

The Cole Group also publishes the annual directory of suppliers to the publishing industry, Cole's Guide to Publishing Systems. Preparation of the 1996 edition is now under way.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...
Thirty: When the newsroom got crazy -- when the phone wouldn't stop ringing and people kept streaming into his office -- John Klenk would go to the cafeteria. The senior editor for technology of the Toronto Star would flee the anarchy for a few minutes' respite in the paper's food emporium, having a beverage just to think things over. Frequently, he'd drag along co-workers and outside kibitzers, spending what ultimately became hours talking not only about his two great passions -- newspapers and computers -- but also such topics as Toronto's old streetcars, baseball and even his somewhat unusual life. Philosophically unable to join the war in Vietnam, Klenk fled his native Bronx, N.Y., in 1968, to Canada, where he finally got work as a copy boy at the late Toronto Telegram. After the Telegram folded in 1971, Klenk took his family on a seven-month tour of the United States in a converted bread delivery van, sneaking into and out of the country. Upon his return to Toronto, Klenk was hired as a proof reader in the Star's composing room, rising through the ranks to a job in the newspaper's computer department, and ultimately, in 1989, to the job of running the newsroom's computer systems. Klenk installed the paper's System Integrators System/55 and, as such, became the paper's emissary to the users group that supported the machine. Working up the chairs of officialdom, Klenk was elected president of the SII Users Group in 1993 and most recently had been the group's treasurer. Equally passionate about his family, Klenk had three sons, two daughters and two grandchildren, in addition to his wife Joyce McKerrow, his mother, a stepsister and a stepbrother. His most recent delight: a Canadian passport, bestowed upon the new citizen earlier this year. On Oct. 21, John Klenk died of a heart attack; he was 46. ...

New media mavens: At the Boston Globe, Lincoln Millstein has been named vice president of new media. The former managing editor for new media will have responsibility for on-line as well as the paper's collaboration with New England Cable News. ... At the Chicago Tribune, Owen Youngman has been named director of interactive media. Youngman, formerly the Trib's managing editor for features, will have responsibility for the paper's America Online presence, Chicago Online, as well as Internet and other future interactive applications. ... @home, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Internet-on-cable-TV system being co-developed by Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI, the nation's largest cable TV company) and the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins, Caufield and Byers, has brought on board some former print people (hardly a surprise -- former San Francisco Examiner Publisher Will Hearst is @home's acting CEO). First, Peggy Bair has joined as production manager; Bair, a former executive with ANPA, had most recently worked at the Knight-Ridder Information Design Lab in Boulder, Colo. Second, Roger Black has joined as creative director; Black, the former design director of Rolling Stone, New York magazine, the New York Times and Newsweek, most recently was design director of Esquire magazine. (He also helped redesign many newspapers, including the Examiner, the Toronto Star and the Baltimore Sun.) Third, Mark Potts has joined as content director; Potts, the former business editor of the Examiner and a business reporter at the Washington Post, most recently was with Digital Ink, the Post's on-line service. ... And at the bottom of the Bay at Knight-Ridder New Media in San Jose, Bob Hucker has returned to the fold. Hucker, the former systems editor of the San Jose Mercury News who left the paper 18 months ago to become a real computer programmer, is now working with his former colleagues at the new venture. ...

Real bits: Speaking of the Mercury News, Jennifer LeFeur has returned to the paper, in charge of computer-assisted journalism training. LeFeur has been with the Investigative Reporters and Editors at Ohio State University, where she handled training. ... At the Huntsville Times in Alabama, Martha Reichold has been named production director; formerly, she had been director of information systems at The Press of Atlantic City, N.J. ...

Vendor victuals: At American Computer Innovators Inc. of Amherst, Mass., Larry Justice has been named executive vice president of marketing. Justice, the former president and chief operating officer of Dewar Information Systems Corp. of Downers Grove, Ill., was vice president of production at Herman Miller Inc. (the furniture company) before his stint with Dewar. Also at ACI, Michael McLauglin has been named vice president of sales; he is a former district sales manager for Autologic. ... At Gannett Media Technologies International Inc. of Cincinnati, Bill Mahlock has been named national accounts manager. Mahlock, who will be responsible for the sales of the Digital Collections archiving system, had been the vice president of operations at Publicitas Advertising Services of Stamford, Conn. ... At IBM, Steve Dienna has been named market segment executive for the printing, publishing, telecommunications and media industry solutions unit, working out of suburban Atlanta. Dienna, a longtime sales executive with Atex, Insi, SII, etc., most recently was representing ISGI in the United States (a role that will be taken over by Rod Fenwick, the former veep for marketing at Atex). .... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Frank O'Hearn has been named to the sales department; O'Hearn, a longtime executive at the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey (features editor, computer services manager), most recently was systems manager at the Scranton Times in Pennsylvania. ...

Confabs: Online '95, the electronic publishing conference of the Graphic Communications Association, is Nov. 13-16 in Philadelphia; call GCA at (703) 519-8160. ... Fall Comdex is Nov. 13-17 in Lost Wages, Nev. If you don't have a hotel room now for the biggest of all computer shows, you might consider going only for the day. Call Softbank Comdex at (617) 449-6600 (ext. 4289). ... Decus, the conference and trade show that spotlights products from Digital Equipment Corp., is Dec. 2-7 in San Francisco. Call (508) 841-3346 for dectails. ... SGML '95, a conference on all the aspects of the markup language sponsored by the Graphic Communications Association, is Dec. 3-7 in Boston. That same GCA number from above works here too. ...

Errors & Omissions: Executives at System Integrators Inc. called to correct something they said in Des Moines, Iowa, at the fall SII users group meeting (see The Cole Papers, October 1995). Though they said that SII was "the first value-added retailer to sign with Netscape Corp. of Mountain View, Calif.," they subsequently found they had made that statement in error. ... #

"Print isn't dead -- it just doesn't move."
-- Frank Romano, professor and pre-press humorist at Seybold San Francisco

From THE COLE PAPERS, November 1995, Copyright © 1995, All Rights Reserved.