The session will be moderated by Kerry Northrup of IFRA.

Meeting Point, (803) 777-0552 or e-mail susan.hipp@usc.jour.sc.edu.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"Whether black hats can become white hats is not a black-and-white question."
-- Peter Neumann, a computer security expert at SRI International of Mountain View, Calif., explaining that bad-guy hackers, "black hats," might have problems becoming good-guy hackers, "white hats."

API alterations: At the American Press Institute of Reston, Va., Warren Watson has been named director of extended learning; previously, Watson was on the Institute's executive staff. In earlier lives, Watson was executive editor of Central Maine Newspapers, managing editor and associate publisher of Maine's Portland Press Herald and art director of Florida's St. Petersburg Times. ... Also at API, Mary Glick has been named associate director for news-editorial seminars; previously, Glick was director of the journalism program at the State University of New York, Oswego. In earlier lives, Glick taught journalism at California State University Long Beach and was features editor of Pasadena, Calif.'s Star-News and lifestyles editor for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers. ...

The IT kids: At The Record of Hackensack, N.J., William Toner has been named chief information officer; previously, he had been vice president and chief technology officer of Central Newspapers Inc. of Phoenix. In earlier lives, Toner was an executive with Gannett, having worked as part of the original USA Today start-up team and as the founder of Advanced Systems Lab. ... At The Sun of Baltimore, Carol Sholes has been named vice president of information technology; previously, Sholes had been information systems director of New York's Syracuse Newspapers. ...

New media mavens: At Cox Interactive Media of Atlanta, Debra Howell has been named city site manager for the company's Orange County, Calif. web site, ocnow.com; previously, Howell was with Winfire Inc. and Interplay Entertainment Corp. Also at CIM, Gina Scavo has been named regional business manager for CIM studios in New Orleans, Oklahoma City, Omaha, and Texas' Austin and San Antonio; previously, she was with booksamillion.com. Further at CIM, Candace Vining has been named regional business manager for CIM studios in Charlotte, N.C., Atlanta and Florida's Orlando and West Palm Beach; previously, she was with Otis Elevator Co. Lastly at CIM, Kathryn Post has been named city site manager of CIM's Phoenix web site, accessarizona.com; previously, she was with visitalk.com. ... At the Los Angeles Times, Joseph Russin has been named assistant managing editor for multimedia; he will establish a multimedia desk for the paper and will oversee the paper's multimedia publishing operations, which will include working with latimes.com and Ktla-Channel 5 in Los Angeles. Russin has had a long career in print and broadcast, having been a producer on the PBS series, Inside Story with Hodding Carter, and as news director at Kpix-Channel 5 in San Francisco; he was education editor and a correspondent at Newsweek magazine and managing editor of the Star-Tribune in Caspar, Wyo. ... At Morris Communications Corp. of Augusta, Ga., Steve Yelvington has been named manager of web site development for Morris Digital Works, the company's on-line services division. Previously, Yelvington had been with Cox Interactive Media and was the founding editor of Minneapolis' startribune.com. ... At the New York Daily News, Kevin Hayes has been named new-media editor; previously, he was deputy features editor. ... At the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate.com, John Coate has been named a consultant; Coate was a founder of the web site and has been its general manager for seven years. Previously, Coate was marketing director of The Well, an on-line community in Sausalito, Calif. ...

Vendor vagaries: At Cold North Wind Inc. of Ottawa, Canada, Lee Freeman has been named managing director for the United States and will head up Cold North Wind's new Boston office. Freeman is a "20-year veteran of the high-tech industry." ... At Enfocus Corp. of San Mateo, Calif., Vicki Blake has been named director of business development, North America. Previously, Blake worked with Barco Graphics in marketing and sales management, and before that was with Harris Graphics. ... At Kpmg Consulting's digital asset management practice, Bryan Burnett has been named a manager. Most recently, Burnett was director of technology and new media for The Herald-Sun of Durham, N.C. ... At picSmart of Washington, D.C., Sanford Morse has been named chief operating officer. Morse has 30 years of experience in the legal publishing industry, most recently as vice president and editor-in-chief of the Professional Information Services Division of the American Lawyer Group. ... At Xitron Inc. of Ann Arbor, Mich., Gary Widmayer has been named central region sales manager; previously, Widmayer was with International Paper. ...

Confabs: The World Association of Newspaper's Advertising Conference will be held Feb. 15-16 in Monte Carlo. For more information, call {011} (33) 1-47-42-85-00 or e-mail contact_us@wan.asso.fr. ... The Harris Users Group will be Feb. 26-March 2 in Melbourne, Fla. For more information, call Gary Flatt of Florida's Daytona Beach News-Journal at (904) 252-1511, ext. 2335, or e-mail him at gary.flatt@news-jrnl.com. ... The Syndicated Content conference will be held Feb. 27-28 in San Francisco. For more information, call (973) 256-0205 or e-mail info@iqpc.com. ... The Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications Association's annual meeting will be held Feb. 28-March 3 in Atlanta. For more information, go to http://www.ddap.org/. ... The On-Demand Expo will be held Feb. 28-March 2 in New York City. Speakers will include Bernhard Schreier of Heidelberg and Charles Pesko Jr. of CAP Ventures Inc. For more information, call (218) 723-9130. ... The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education will host the Cross-Media Journalism Program for Broadcast, Print and the Internet March 10-17 in Los Angeles. The session will provide hands-on training from top-industry professionals on how to report, write and produce stories for newspapers, TV and the Web. For more information, send e-mail to info@maynardije.org. ... Digital Art Exchange Inc. of suburban Boston, has announced a four-city "road show" to offer graphic arts digital file transfer education. The keynote speaker will be Christopher Heric, a digital pre-press and systems consultant. Sessions will be held March 15 in Boston, March 22 in New York, March 29 in Philadelphia and April 5 in Chicago. For more info, call (800) 329-6266 or send e-mail to kwalsh@dax-it.com. ...

Errors & Omissions: In last issue's story on the cancellation of Atex's Omnex project (see The Cole Papers, January 2001), David Cole wrote throughout the article that SAXoPress, the editorial front-end system marketed by SAXoTech Inc. of Rockville, Md., was based on Microsoft Word. Cole was wrong: SAXoPress uses its own proprietary word processor. We regret the error. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, February 2001, Copyright © 2001, All Rights Reserved.