Other sessions will include "60 Ideas in 60 Minutes," "Hot Revenue for Your Market," "Turning Traffic into Dollars," "How to Build A Business Plan," "Transforming Technology," "Content Driving Revenue," "On-line Sales Workshop" and "Driving Readership: Print and On-line."

Concurrently, the NAA's Research Federation will hold its annual meeting, which will share many sessions with Connections.

A bonus session on wireless distribution, with a separate admission price, will be held July 19.

The Newspaper Association of America, (703) 902-1600, e-mail: registrar@naa.org.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"It is important to have a place where editors from around the world can share their concerns and insights about the profession they practice with skill and passion. And this organization is exactly that forum."
-- Gloria Brown Anderson, upon her election as president of the World Editor's Forum.

Editors and technology: At the World Editors Forum, based in Paris, Gloria Brown Anderson has been elected president for a two-year term. Anderson is the vice president for international and editorial development at the News Services Division of the New York Times. Her career ranges from having been the editor and publisher of Miami's Kendall Gazette to being a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Associated Press (with stops along the way as the managing editor of the Miami News and editor-in-chief of the New York Times Syndication Sales Corp.). "This is a special time in the lives of editors because technology is changing so quickly," Anderson said. ... Anderson succeeds Ruth de Aquino, the 1999-2000 World Editors Forum president, who moves on to become the director of editorial strategy at IFRA, the international newspaper technology group based in Darmstadt, Germany. De Aquino, the former editor-in-chief and director of journalism at O Dia in her native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will focus on Ifra's Centre for Advanced News Operations and the Newsplex laboratory that has been developed in cooperation with the University of South Carolina, where the facility is hosted. IFRA said that de Aquino would partner with the center's executive director, Kerry Northrup, in developing next-generation news-handling methods and technologies. ...

The more consultants, the better: Two leading newspaper new media executives have teamed up to form Finberg-Gentry, The Digital Futurist Consultancy. Howard Finberg, the former director of technology and information strategies at Central Newspapers Inc. of Phoenix, has had a wide-ranging newspaper career, having been an editor at the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and Arizona Republic. Leah Gentry, the former editorial director of LATimes.com, worked in reporting, editing and new media at the Orange County Register and the Chicago Tribune, and was managing editor of Excite.com. ... Jeffrey Litvak has started Marigot Systems LLC of Nashua, N.H. Litvak is the former senior project manager for the Omnex content management system at Atex Media Solutions; previously he had held a similar title at CText Inc. ...

Real bits: At the San Jose Mercury News, Vice President for Operations Jerry Polk has taken early retirement. Polk, the former assistant composing room foreman at Ohio's Akron Beacon Journal, previously had been the production manager and vice president for operations at Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., the production director at the Long Beach Press Telegram in Southern California and the vice president for operations at the Denver Post. ... At Cox Interactive Media of Atlanta, Chris Kelly has been promoted to director of product development. Previously Kelly had been the general manager of DiscoverOmaha.com, a CIMedia property, and had been with Utell International and Sabre Travel. ...

Vendor vitality: At Adobe Systems Inc. of San Jose, Mark Niemann-Ross has been named cross-media evangelist; previously Niemann-Ross had been a marketing executive with Extensis and had worked in developer relations at both Managing Editor Inc. and Quark Inc.. ... Baseview Products Inc., the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based division of Harris Publishing Systems, has made a raft of new hires. Steve Sulouff has been named technical sales director for the JazShak application service provider business; previously he had been management information systems director at the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Ill. David Quinn has been named controller; previously Quinn was a CPA in Ann Arbor. Ed Ernest has been named webmaster; previously Ernest had been with EDS. Also at Baseview, Charlie Passut has been promoted to multimedia developer; he had been a trainer with the company. ... At Digital Technology International of Springville, Utah, Mel Caswell will be handling international systems engineering and consulting; previously Caswell had been publishing systems director at Knight Ridder corporate, and director of technology and information systems for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader. ... At GSI Architects Inc. of Cleveland, Paul Martin is in charge of newspaper management and technology. Martin had been director of technology at Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. of Birmingham, Ala., and Thomson Newspapers of Stamford, Conn. ... At the Los Angeles Times Syndicate International, three promotions have been announced. Ryan Stephens has been named managing director, article sales and regional executive, Latin America and Canada; previously Stephens had been a regional sales representative. Jessica Napoli has been named director of international publisher relations and administration in the New York office; previously Napoli had been with the syndicate's parent organization, Tribune Media Services, where she was a sales representative. Eric McPherson has been named director of Asia operations; previously McPherson had been a sales representative working out of the Hong Kong office. ... At Prolatus Inc. of Minneapolis, Tamara Johnson has been named marketing communications manager; previously Johnson was with Northwest Airlines and General Mills. ...

Confabs: MacWorld, the conference and exposition for people who think different, will be July 17-20 in New York City. Scheduled speakers include Kevin Browne of Microsoft and Mr. Reality Distortion Field himself, Steve Jobs. For more information, call (800) 645-3976 ... The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association will hold its 32nd annual conference in conjunction with Pantech 2001 Aug. 6-9 in Melbourne, Australia. Speakers will include Günther Böttcher of IFRA and Murdock MacLennan and Allan Marshall of Associated Newspapers of London. For more information, call {011} 61 2 4322 1066, or e-mail panpa@panpa.org.au. ... #

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