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New media maven: At ElectionLine, the Washington Post/Newsweek/ABC News-backed World-Wide Web site, Evans Witt has been named editor. Witt, a longtime Associated Press executive, was most recently the news cooperative's director of election planning and assistant chief of bureau in Washington for administration. ElectionLine, which will open in January, will cover races for the Senate, House, governorships and the White House. ...

Vendor vibrations: At Atex Publishing Systems Corp. of Bedford, Mass., Wendy Bruce has returned to the fold; most recently Bruce had been with Cybergraphic Systems. ... Also at Cybergraphic of Burlington, Mass., Evelyn Martin has transferred to the home office in Melbourne, Australia, where she's a project manager. ... At Digital Technology International of Orem, Utah, Garth Despain has left as marketing manager after four years; longtime DT'er Kathleen Bray will take over some of his duties. ... At Extensis Corp. of Portland, Ore., Mark Nieman-Ross joins up as product manager for all Quark XPress-related add-ons, including QX-Tools. Nieman-Ross most recently had been with Managing Editor Inc.; from 1989 to 1994, he was third-party marketing manager at Quark. ... At Linotype-Hell of Hauppauge, N.Y., Dani Herzka has been named to the board of directors of the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (Gatf); Herzka is Linotype-Hell's vice president of marketing and product management. ... After laboring for more than a decade in the vineyards of The Sun in Baltimore, System Editor Claire Abt has moved out of the newsroom and on to greener pastures at Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa. Abt, long noted for her ability to dream typesetting formats while getting a good night's sleep, has become a training and support specialist for MEI. ... At Mission Critical Technologies Inc. of Concord, Mass., Max Coebergh has been named vice president of worldwide sales; most recently Coebergh had been general manager of international sales at Information International Inc. of Los Angeles. Before that, Coebergh had been a longtime executive with Atex, where he'd been in charge of the Americas. ... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Lori Hackman has been named marketing coordinator; she came from the printing industry. ... At Newspaper Technologies Inc. of Alberta, Canada (you may remember the company under its former name, Ciss Ltd.), Donald Chapman has been named president and chief executive officer; Chapman is a veteran of both the aerospace and software industries. Jim Evans, the former president and one of Ciss's founders, remains with the company in software development. ... At Softbank Exposition and Conference Co. (makers of fine meetings such as the Seybold Seminars) of Foster City, Calif., James Stafford has been named vice president of on-line development; previously Stafford had been with Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., handling chores such as publishing Computer Life magazine. ...

Confabs: The Internet and World-Wide Web Information Conference will be held Dec. 8 in San Francisco. Topics include "Marketing on the Internet," "The Basics of Commercial Transactions on the Internet," "Internet Security and Firewalls" and "Publishing on the Internet and World-Wide Web." The details are at (800) 682-5078 or by e-mailing to rccec@accunet.com. ... Profitable On-line Publishing Strategies for Magazines and Newspapers will be Dec. 11-12 in Boston. Speakers include Barry Cooper of the Orlando Sentinel, Barry Parr of Mercury Center, Frederick Tuccillo of Newsday, Kristen Gunn of U.S. News & World Report, Mitchell York of CMP Interactive Media and James Kinsella of Time Inc.'s Pathfinder. Call (617) 270-6200 for the profitable answers. ... Building Internet Firewalls, a one-day tutorial by Brent Chapman, co-author of an O'Reilly & Associates book by the same name and founder of Great Circle Associates (a Bay Area network consulting firm), will be held Dec. 13 in Los Angeles, Dec. 15 in Dallas and Jan. 18-19 in Austin, Texas. For more information, send e-mail to tutorial-info@greatcircle.com or call (415) 962-0841. ... Beyond the Printed Word III, an IFRA symposium, will be held Dec. 12-13 in Berlin. Call IFRA at (011) {49} 6151 700512. ... Consumer Internet '96, Dec. 13-14 in New York, will have keynote addresses by James Barksdale, the president and chief executive of Netscape Communications Corp., and Anthea Disney, the editor-in-chief of MCI/News Corp.'s on-line venture. In addition, speakers include Sean Doherty of @home, Halsey Minor of C/Net, Deanna Brown of CondéNet, Tim Koogle of Yahoo! and Peter Friedman of eWorld. For more information, call (212) 780-6060 or e-mail jupiter@jup.com. ...

Errors & Omissions: Batting zero for three was our item in last month's Bit Bucket regarding Jennifer LaFleur. First, we misspelled her name; second, we misidentified her previous place of employment (it's the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where she was training director), and third, her new title at the San Jose Mercury News is database editor. A little computer-assisted investigative reporting (i.e., typing http://www.nicar.org into a Web browser) would have revealed most of these facts. We apologize for the errors. ... #

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