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"If the GCW [Graphic Communications World] you're now reading is on white paper, instead of green, we're blue."
-- John Warner, CGW editor and publisher, commenting on analog rights management.

Real bits: At Shaw Newspapers of Dixon, Ill., Brad Shaw has announced that he will be phasing himself out of his job as computer services director over the course of the next nine months and relocating to Arizona. ... At CoxNet of Atlanta, the transmission system for the Cox News Service, Tom Older has been named news editor; previously, Older was the service's day news editor and held a variety of editing roles at Cox's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Also at CoxNet, Jay Scott has been named projects editor; previously, he was suburban operations editor at the AJC, overseeing pagination of all the paper's daily and weekly zoned editions. ...

Association appropriations: At IFRA -- the association for newspaper and media technology -- of Darmstadt, Germany, Harald Ritter has been named chief information officer. Previously, Ritter was managing editor of Badische Zeitung and editor-in-chief and business manager of Speyer Tagespost. ... At the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Reston, Va., Kevin Wilcox has been named communications director (he will be the editor of the American Editor); previously, Wilson was senior writer with the National Association of Counties and before that was a reporter with the Dominion Post, a daily in Morgantown, W. Va. Also at Asne, Cristal Williams has been named project director; previously, she was manager of recruiting and development at Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal. ... And, belatedly we report a bunch of changes at the Newspaper Association of America of Vienna, Va.: First, Clark Robinson has been named vice president of technology implementation; previously, Robinson had been editor of the NAA's Technews and in earlier lives had been a mechanical engineer and computer marketing executive. Second, Dawn Rhine was named vice president of technology conferences and expositions; previously, Rhine had been NEXPO exhibits manager and NEXPO director. Third, at Technews, Mark Toner has been named editor; previously, Toner was the magazine's associate editor as well as being a writer for the association's Presstime magazine and in earlier lives had been a reporter and editor at newspapers in Virginia. And fourth, Harshad Matalia has been named director of production operations in the Technology Group; previously the association's post-press manager, Matalia joined the American Newspaper Publishers Association Research Institute in 1975 as a research associate in the mechanical engineering department. ...

New media names: At Belo Interactive Inc. of Dallas, Eric Christensen has been named vice president for finance; prior to joining Belo, Christensen was with Snyder Communications and PepsiCo Inc. ... At Cox Interactive Media of Atlanta, Rodney Mayers has been named vice president of business development; previously, Mayers was with Prodigy Communications Corp. and Thirteen/Wnet in New York City. Also at Cox, Beth James has been named city site manager of its InsideNewOrleans.com studio; James has been with the site since 1998. Lastly at Cox, Stu Turner has been named site and marketing manager for the LAinsider.com studio, Cox's newest city site; previously, Turner was marketing and promotions director for Cox's KFI (640-AM) in Los Angeles. ...

Vendor vibrations: At Advanced Technical Solutions, Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., Kelli Diaz has been named remote ad management product manager; previously, Diaz was information technology director at the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis. ... At the Associated Press of New York City, Ian Ritchie has been named chief executive of Associated Press Television News (Aptn); previously, Ritchie was with Middle East Broadcasting Ltd. and Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd. ... At Baseview Products Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., Jeff Gapp has been named national sales director for JazShak, the company's application service provider (ASP) environment; previously Gapp was a trainer and product manager for Baseview and has been with the company for seven years. Taking Gapp's old position as product manager for ProductionManagerPro is Laura Summers. ... At Best Software Inc. of Huntington, N.Y., Mark Geeves has been named president; previously, Geeves was with Color Savvy Systems Ltd. and X-Rite Inc. ... At Engage Software (formerly MediaBridge, formerly Cascade Systems, formerly Advanced Pre-press Systems) of Acton, Mass., Phil Rugile has been named vice president for media; most recently, Rugile was vice president of information technology at Baltimore's Sun and before that was in charge of publishing systems technology at Long Island, N.Y.'s Newsday. In earlier lives, Rugile was on the supplier side of the fence with MediaBridge, Cybergraphic and Crosfield and on the user side of the fence with CMP Publications, Avon and Time Magazines. ... At Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., Jason Conklin has been named territory manager for the Northeast and Great Lakes region; previously, Conklin was with Software Consulting Services. ... At Net-Linx Publishing Solutions of Dresden, Germany, Ann Arbor, Mich. and Sacramento, Barry Truitt has been named vice president of marketing; Truitt has had a long and successful career at such sterling industry suppliers as Cybergraphic, Atex, Hell-Xenotron and System Integrators. Also at Net-Linx, Mike Lee has been named executive vice president for Europe; previously, Lee was chief operating officer of System Integrators. ... At Printware of St. Paul, Minn., Mark Kouba has been named West Coast district sales manager; previously, Kouba was with Sinar Bron Imaging, Itek and Agfa. ... At Salient Stills of Boston, Malcolm McGrory has been named chief operating officer; previously, McGrory was the founding president, vice chairman and executive vice president of MediaBridge (formerly Cascade Systems, formerly Advanced Pre-press Systems) and before that was founder of Hyphen Inc. and was in sales and support at Xenotron. ...

Confabs: The IFRA Congress and Exposition will be held Oct. 9-12 in Amsterdam, Holland. More than 300 exhibits will be available, as well as the seminar "Tomorrow's Newsroom -- The NewsGear 2001 Special Edition" and a meeting of the International Newspaper Color Quality Club 2000-2002. For more information, send e-mail to expo@IFRA.com or call (011) {31} 20-549-1018. ... Concurrent with the IFRA exposition is Beyond the Printed Word, a three-day conference co-sponsored by IFRA and the World Association of Newspapers. Sessions include, "All Wap or what?" "Newspaper goes radio," "Newspaper goes interactive," "Newspaper journalist goes TV" and "One newsroom -- all media." Use the contacts above. ... Real Estate Connect Silicon Valley, a conference on the future of the real estate business, will be held Oct. 25-27 in Santa Clara, Calif. Speakers include Stuart Wolff of HomeStore.com and Rick Braddock of Priceline.com. For more information, send e-mail to connect@inman.com or call (510) 658-9252. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, October 2000, Copyright © 2000, All Rights Reserved.