Biggest little confab in Pennsylvania

America East, an intimate newspaper conference and trade show, will be March 26-28 in Hershey, Pa.

The keynote speaker will be Paul Camp, formerly of Thomson Target Media, who is now the chief executive of Content That Works of Chicago. Camp's topic: the future of the newspaper business.

A special seminar, "Managing the Advertising Department," will address the "Main Street approach relative to each facet of advertising management."

David Lightfoot, president of Chesapeake Resource Group of Annapolis, Md., will present a panel session dealing with all aspects of computer-to-plate (CTP) technology.

A session called "Building a Better Production Mousetrap," is aimed at exploring "non-traditional operation opportunities for production."

Robert Hacker, professor emeritus at New York's Rochester Institute of Technology, shares insights into how publishers can deal with quality issues.

New Media World is held in conjunction with America East. Session titles include "Wireless Publishing," "Do You Know What Your Page Views Mean," "The Difference Between Web and Print Journalism," "NIFT, NewsML, XML: Making Sense of the New Net Alphabet Soup" and "Is Your Newspaper Ready for the Everyday Web?"

The keynote for New Media World will be delivered by Mike Steele of Florida's Orlando Sentinel, whose topic will be "Building for Convergence."

America East, (717) 703-3000; e-mail: cathye@pa-news.org.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"I absolutely believe the Internet is the future of journalism, it's the future of publishing, it's the future of advertising. It's so clear to me. I want to be in it when it really blossoms."
-- Hoag Levins, former newspaper reporter and executive editor of Editor & Publisher who served as editor of ABPNews.com through its founding to its bankruptcy, in the New York Times. Levins is now editor of Advertising Age's web site.

Top technologists: At the New York Times, Scott Heekin-Canedy, currently senior vice president for circulation, will add responsibility for the marketing services department and the systems and technology department to his continuing responsibilities for the circulation/distribution segment of the newspaper. ... At the E. W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, B. Jeff Craig has been named chief technology officer. The 20-year telecommunications and media industry veteran, comes to the newly created position at Scripps from Discovery Communications Inc., where for the last three years he has been senior vice president of interactive technology and new media development. ... At the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Fla. (St. Petersburg Times, Congressional Quarterly, Florida Trend, etc.), Elizabeth Sholar has been named chief technology officer; previously, Sholar was vice president of technology at Thomson Newspapers and in earlier lives had been vice president of the Globe and Mail of Toronto and had served in technology positions at the Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., and at the Chicago Tribune. ... At Village Voice Media of New York City, Ray Douglas has been named chief information officer; previously Douglas was the vice president of systems and technology for the New York Times. ...

New media mavens: At Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) of Atlanta, Sonya McLaughlin has rejoined the company as director of sales programs; most recently, she was senior account manager for Go.com (formerly Infoseek) in Atlanta and before that was with CIMedia, first as a sponsorship sales manager beginning and then as divisional sales manager for CIMedia's East Coast division. Also at CIMedia, Glenn McLaren has been named city site manager of its San Antonio, Texas, web site, sa360.com; previously, McLaren was the site's content manager, and before that, was news manager for the Sun-Sentinel Internet Edition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and also served as on-line editor for Caller-Times Interactive, Corpus Christi, Texas. In earlier lives, McLaren was on the sports copy desk of the Caller-Times and was with the Galveston County Daily News and points south. ... At the Daily Shopper Network of Seattle, Carol Perruso has been named president and chief operating officer; previously, Perruso was president of the Los Angeles Times' Internet edition. ... At Freedom Communications Inc. of Irvine, Calif., Tom Porter has been named vice president and general manager of Freedom Interactive Newspapers; previously, Porter was vice president of community newspapers and has been a longtime Freedom employee. ...

Vendor vitality: At AdStar.com Inc. of Marina Del Rey, Calif., Jeffrey Baudo has been named chief operating officer; previously, Baudo had been president of the periodical division of United Advertising Publications. Also at AdStar, the company said that Chief Financial Officer B.J. Douek has left the company. ... At CreoScitex America of Bedford, Mass., Larry Letteney has been named president; previously, Letteney had been vice president of sales and vice president of operations and before that had been with Eastman Kodak. Letteney replaces Kevin Joyce, who for personal reasons is "assuming a new role in business development," according to the company. ... At DeskNet of New York City, Richard Mack has been named director of sales; previously, Mack was with R.R. Donnelley & Sons. ... At Graphic Enterprises Inc. of North Canton, Ohio, Ken Larson has been promoted to vice president of marketing for the company's pre-press division; Larson remains president of the board of the company's computer networking division. ... At I.M.A.G.E. Inc. of New York City, Linda Nelson has been named president of the company following the death of Jerry Sarnat, the founder and president, in January; previously, Nelson had been the company's technical director. ... At InfiNet of Norfolk, Va., Angus Twombly has been named vice president of customer development; previously, Twombly had been the company's marketing director since last August and before that had been in marketing at Maine's Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram as well as Connecticut's Hartford Courant and New Jersey's Trenton Times. In earlier lives, Twombly had been a reporter and assistant city editor for the now-defunct Knickerbocker News in Albany, N.Y. Twombly replaces Susan Kelly-Gilbert, who is leaving to spend more time with her family. ... At Kodak Polychrome Graphics of Norwalk, Conn., Vic Stalam has been named vice president, chief marketing and business development officer; previously, Stalam had been president and chief operating officer of VIO North America, and before that spent 17 years with Eastman Kodak Co. Also at Kodak Polychrome, Don Whaley has been named director of channel management for the United States and Canada; previously, Whaley had been the company's director of sales operations and before that had been in sales with Eastman Kodak. .... At Mactive Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., Joyce Madden has been named a project manager; previously, she had been with Harris Publishing Systems for 11 years in both project and contract management. Also at Mactive, four new implementation specialists have been named, including Jo Cattaneo, who had been with Harris Publishing Systems; Tim Downie, who had been with Harris Publishing Systems; Lin Edwards, who had been with Digital Technologies International and before that had been with Harris Publishing Systems, and Doug Rosen, who had been with Harris Publishing Systems and before that had worked for Nebraska's Lincoln Journal Star. Lastly at Mactive, Melissa Rios has been named a technical writer; previously, Rios was with Terion Inc. and Harris Gcsd and GE-Harris. ... At Managing Editor Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa., Shawn Duffy has been named director of channel development; previously, Duffy was with Baseview Products Inc. ... At the New York Times News Services Division, Cristian Edwards has been named executive vice president of the Syndication Sales Corp.; Edwards had been with New York Times Digital and its predecessor companies since 1996 and previously had been president of regional newspapers for El Mercurio, a South American publishing company. Also at the Times News Services Division, Gloria Brown Anderson has been named vice president of international and editorial development; previously, she had been president and editor-in-chief of the Syndication Sales Corp. and has been with the company since 1994. Lastly at the News Services Division, Nancy Lee has been promoted to vice president of business development; previously, she was director of business development and had been the divison's first director of the photo archives. In earlier lives, Lee had been a deputy picture editor and graphics editor at the Mother Ship and had started her career as a copy editor at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. ... At Openpages Inc. of Westford, Mass., Beth Heather Macy has been named vice president of engineering; previously, Macy had been with Viveca Inc., Lotus Development Corp., IBM and Apple Computer. Macy replaces Scott Killoh, Openpages' founder and chairman, who had been temporarily running engineering (Killoh remains chairman). Also at Openpages, George Hotter has been named vice president of human resources; previously, Hotter had been with Extraprise and GTE Internetworking. ... At WoodWing Software of Zaandam, The Netherlands, Jeroen Sonnemans has been named director of European sales and marketing; previously, Sonnemans had been with Extensis Europe. ...

Errors and omissions: In the February issue, Editor and Publisher David M. Cole made two mistakes in his coverage of a presentation made by David Underhill of Tribune Co. at January's SuperConference: Tribune has 22 television stations, rather than the 18 that Cole reported, and Underhill's closing line at the conference was mangled; it should have read, "Please support standards interoperability." We regret the errors. ... #

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