APME Contacts

New Members:

Tucson, Arizona:

Bobbie Jo Buel, executive editor, The Arizona Daily Star

President, AP Managing Editors Association

Mailing Address: 4850 S. Park Ave. Tucson, AZ 85714

E-mail Address: bjbuel@azstarnet.com

Phoenix, Arizona:

Joseph Garcia, viewpoints and AZtalk editor, The Arizona Republic

Chairman of AP's Journalism Today committees

Mailing Address: The Arizona Republic Newsroom, 200 E. Van Buren St. Phoenix, AZ 85004.

E-mail Address: joe.garcia@arizonarepublic.com

Randy Lovely, editor and vice president of news, The Arizona Republic

APME governing board

Mailing Address: The Arizona Republic Newsroom, 200 E. Van Buren St. Phoenix, AZ 85004.

E-mail Address: randy.lovely@arizonarepublic.com

Phone Number: 602-444-8790

Memphis, Tennessee:

Otis Sanford, opinion editor of The Commercial Appeal

APME Vice President

Mailing Address: 495 Union Ave. Memphis, TN, 38103

E-Mail Address: sanford@commercialappeals.com

Phone Number: 901-529-2447

Recent Work:

• Otis L. Sanford: Ole Miss right place for debate
  September 14, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: From Memphis to Washington, media, pols fight like Kramdens
  September 7, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: OK, Gang of 10, take a look at your handiwork
  August 31, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: It's dubbed the 'high court' for good reason
  August 24, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Bailey singed, Tinker toast from ad fallout
  August 17, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Laughter, joy leave too soon
  August 12, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Kids back in class, alleged 'adults' out -- that's good
  August 10, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Let's subtract this division that only adds a wedge issue
  August 3, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Think first for the kids
  July 27, 2008
• Otis L. Sanford: Showing city's crime solvers is not bad news
  July 20, 2008

Knoxville, Tennessee:

Jack Lail, managing editor - multimedia, The Knoxville News Sentinel

Mailing Address: 2332 News Sentinel Dr Knoxville, TN 37921-5766

Home Address: 1801 Northshore Hills Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37922

E-mail Address: jack@jacklail.com

Phone Number: 865-342-6801 [work]; 865-686-6033 [home]

Blog: www.jacklail.com    (Mostly apolitical)

Biography: Lail is a native of North Carolina and came to The News-Sentinel in 1984 after working at small dailies in Asheboro and Thomasville, N.C. He has been its TVA reporter, a business reporter, Business Editor, an Assistant Metro Editor and Metro Editor.

Knoxnews.com has won many national awards, most recently winning three 2008 Digital Edge Awards from the Newspaper Association of America for best overall news Web site, most innovative user-participation and best site design.

Endorsements: Bush in 2000, McCain and Obama in respective primaries

Twitter: twitter.com/jacklail
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jacklail
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539056144
Spock: Profile
ZoomInfo: Profile
Knoxnews Bio Page
flickr: Photo stream

Cincinnati, Ohio:

Hollis Towns, executive editor, The Cincinnati Enquirer

APME secretary

CONTACT INFO UNCERTAIN – RECENTLY CHANGED JOBS

Possible Contact Information:

Asbury Park Press
3601 Highway 66, PO Box 1550, Neptune, NJ 07754
(732) 922-6000

Previous Editor's Extension: 4081

Other staff member may be willing to provide information:

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/CUSTOMERSERVICE/7...

Cleveland, Ohio:

Debra Adams Simmons, managing editor, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

APME governing board

Toledo, Ohio:

Kurt Franck, managing editor, The Blade

APME governing board

Mailing Address: The Toledo Blade Company, 541 N. Superior St., Toledo, OH 43660

E-mail Address: kfranck@theblade.com

Phone Number: 419-724-6163 & 419-724-6439

Blurb: Kurt Franck is The Blade's Managing Editor. Franck, who has held the position since September 2000, supervises a newsroom of 140 people. As managing editor, Kurt is the newsroom’s No. 2 manager, supervising and directing the day-to-day operation of more than 140 editorial employees. He also directed The Blade’s recent Pulitzer Prize winning series, Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths.

Managing Editor Kurt Franck told the Blade, “We had a moral obligation to report this news. Where the government failed, The Blade closed that chapter."

Columbus, Ohio:

Alan D. Miller, managing editor-news of The Columbus Dispatch

APME governing board

Mailing Address: 34 S. 3rd St., Columbus, Ohio 43215

E-mail Address: amiller@dispatch.com

Phone Number: He is the editor of the news department, so here is the department #: 614-461-5200

Blog: blog.dispatch.com/oldhouse

Oakland, California:

Martin Reynolds, editor, The Oakland Tribune and assistant managing editor of the Bay Area News Group

APME governing board

Mailing Address: 7677 Oakport St. #950, Oakland, CA 94621

E-mail Address: mreynolds@bayareanewsgroup.com

Phone Number: 510-208-6433

Paper Endorsement in primaries: Obama, McCain

Recent Work:

Civic involvement key to stemming tide of violence

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_10345832

Rednecks, white voters and blue-state excitement

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_10293696

Bay Area junior statesmen raise their voice for Obama

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

Michael Days, editor, Philadelphia Daily News

APME governing board

Mailing Address: 400 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130-4015

Second Business: Also in Philadelphia Media Holdings ,LLC

Little Rock, Arkansas:

David Bailey, managing editor, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

APME governing board

Street Address: 121 E. Capitol Ave., Little Rock, AR 72201

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203

E-mail Address: dbailey@arkansasonline.com

Phone Number: 501-378-3400

Fairport, Upstate New York:

Brad Dennison, vice president of news operations, Gatehouse Media

APME governing board

Hattiesburg, Mississippi:

Kathleen Williams, executive editor, Hattiesburg American

APME governing board

Seattle, Washington:

Kathy Best, managing editor - digital news, The Seattle Times

APME governing board.

Mailing Address: PO Box 70, Seattle, WA 98111

E-Mail Address:  kbest@seattletimes.com

Phone Number: 206-464-3337

Blurb: Kathy Best , managing editor / digital news and innovation, with specific responsibility for Seattletimes.com. She is newly hired from The Baltimore Sun and "will be our liaison with the New Media Division and will focus on innovation and creativity throughout the newsroom."

LinkedIn: LinkedIn profile

Bio: Kathy Best bio from the APME site

Old Members:

(Terms expiring in 2009)

Karen Peterson, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.

Street Address: 1950 South State Street, Tacoma, WA 98405

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 11000, Tacoma, WA 98411 

E-mail Address: karen.peterson@thenewstribune.com

Phone Number: 253-597-8742

Biography:

Career summary: Began as a stringer for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., in 1985; Started a monthly parenting newsmagazine in Tacoma, 1987-90; Reporter and editor for an Army community newspaper in Germany, 1991-94; County editor, The Daily Ledger in Noblesville, Ind., 1994-97; State education writer, assistant features editor and assistant city editor, The Honolulu Advertiser, 1997-2000; Suburban team leader at The News Tribune until being named senior editor for daily news in 2002 and managing editor in 2005.

Recent accomplishments: Managed a redesign of the newspaper in 2004. Established a Continuous News Desk in 2005, co-locating online producers and breaking news reporters. Les year-long Learning Newsroom effort to improve workplace culture as one of 10 pilot newspapers nationally for an API-ASNE program. The News Tribune won the 2006 APME award for International Perspective for a series on Tacoma's business connections with China.

APME activities: Board member for three years. APME treasurer since 2005, managing accounts for association, NewsTrain and Credibility Roundtables. Organized conference Mall of Ideas in Phoenix and Louisville. Readership Committee member for three years. Member of the Projects Steering Committee.

APME should: Provide practical tools for managing editors through its magazine, web site, special projects, and state and national conferences. Create a network of editors who can turn to one another for support and mentoring, particularly during these challenging times in our industry. Showcase newspapers and editors doing it right. Be the editorial voice of Associated Press member newspapers.

In my spare time: I hike, snow ski and boat with my family. Garden. Read. And I'm a genealogy junkie.

Previous Work:

Relevant information:

Hysteria by Design? Good news, bad news and the 'chicken little' syndrome.
A Community Conversation
Tuesday evening, March 21 @ 7 p.m.
Olympic Room, Main Library

If hysteria is indeed a communicable disease, is the news media guilty of being the primary source? The media makes issues like homelessness, police brutality, teenage pregnancy, and drug use into fodder for panic - rather than understanding and response - by substituting graphic imagery for a rigorous description of the size and seriousness of the problems. Every year at Thanksgiving, we see pictures of the homeless, shuffling like ghosts into shelters for turkey dinners served up by beaming volunteers. Yet, no one in America knows with any certainty how many homeless people there are.

At the mere threat of a snowstorm, local news switches into the STORM WATCH 2006 mode - complete with logo, theme music and ten-minute updates. Even military initiatives get heir own catchy tune and dazzling graphics. Sensationalizing sometimes the smallest tragedy into overproduced and overhyped coverage is epidemic. Why? How did this happen? Is the American public so difficult to reach except through shouting. How much is too much when it comes to saturation coverage of a story like the DC Sniper or the disappearance of Natalee Holloway? Is the news media guilty of creating hysteria by design?

Guests include:
Paul Larosa, Emmy Award winning journalist, , producer for the newsmagazine 48 Hours and author of Tacoma Confidential; Dave Ross, popular talk show host, KIRO AM,; Karen Peterson, Managing Editor, The News Tribune; David Silver, Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, University of Washington and a specialist on the relationship between cybermedia and contemporary culture.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/newsroom/article_dis...

Calvin Stovall, Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y.

Street Address: 4421 Vestal Parkway East, Vestal, NY 13850
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1270, Vestal, NY 13902

E-mail Address: cstovall@binghamt.gannett.com

Phone Number: 607-798-1186, 607-798-1234

Bio: Calvin Stovall, managing editor of The News Journal at Wilmington, has been named executive editor at the Press & Sun-Bulletin at Binghamton. He replaces Rick Jensen, who was named publisher of the Public Opinion at Chambersburg in March.

Calvin assumes his new position May 2, 2005. He had been managing editor at Wilmington since 2001.

He began his career at the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News as a reporter in 1973. In 1984, he became assistant metro editor at the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind. He was metro editor there when he joined The Detroit News as an assistant city editor in 1986. He later served as day city editor and business editor at the News. In 1990, Calvin worked as assistant to the managing editor at the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

He returned to Gannett in 1991 as senior managing editor at Gannett News Service and joined the corporate News Department as a news executive in 1992. He was in that position for five years before being named managing editor at the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J. He joined The Indianapolis Star as managing editor in October 2000.

Ken Tuck, The Dothan (Ala.) Eagle

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1968, Dothan, AL 36302
Street Address: 227 N. Oates St., Dothan, AL 36303

E-mail Address: ktuck@dothaneagle.com

Phone number: 334-712-7960

Recent accomplishments: Secured a new database for APME, setting the stage to grow and strengthen our membership. Led a team in a complete redesign of the Dothan Eagle. Led a team in creating a new weekly military newspaper to serve the active and retired military community in our coverage area. Led the Eagle newsroom into multimedia journalism, which has led to a large increase in page views on our web site. Newsroom won three D. Tennant Bryan awards this year.

Co-founder of Love in Action Ministries
evangelical (I think) ministry to mostly African American homeless and poor locally in Dothan, and in ATL, NYC, DC, Haiti

Andrew Oppmann, The Tennessean, Nashville and The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro

Mailing Address: 224 N Walnut Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37133

E-mail Address: aoppmann@dnj.com

Phone Number: 615-278-5175

Newspaper profile: 

http://dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=460671bfa3994055aa887b8b5ce5addb

Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Andrew_Oppmann/1008499786

Twitter: http://twitter.com/aoppmann

Newspaper Endorsements: None in primaries

                                            Kerry in 2004 general election

Peter Kovacs, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

Mailing Address: 3800 Howard Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70125-1429

Home Address(?): 5001 Cleveland Place, Metaire, LA 70003
E-mail Address: mailto:pkovacs@timespicayune.com

Phone number [work]: 504-826-3352

Phone number [home?]: 504-885-3381

Fax number: 504-826-3007

Radio Interview: http://www.here-now.org/shows/2006/04/20060418_13.asp

Relevant Information:

"New Orleans Times-Picayune reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy, for their September 26, 2005 attempt to “untell” the story of the savage violence that befell New Orleans just before and after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29 of last year."

http://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2006/09/seven-at-new-orleans-...

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/30/new-orleans-times-picayune-reporters...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/business/media/05picayune.html?_r=1&ad...

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_con...

http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/30/gustav-katrina-orleans-biz-media-cx_db_...

From Brown University's site while winning an award for service to society: Class of '78 Peter joined the Times-Picayune staff in 1983 as the night metro editor. In 1988 he coordinated the paper’s coverage of that year’s presidential campaign and conventions. In 1990 he was promoted to metro editor, and in 1993 he was named to an associate editor position. Before the Times-Picayune, Peter worked as a reporter and editor at the Birmingham News.

Shared a Pulitzer for his work covering Katrina; also active in Brown activities, based on the googles. Has a son attending Brown, class of '10.

http://alumni.brown.edu/volunteer/honor/2006_people_1.html#KovacsGraceSw...

Carole Tarrant, The Roanoke (Va.) Times

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke, VA 24010-2491

Street Address: 201 Campbell Ave Southwest, Roanoke, Virginia.

E-mail Address: carole.tarrant@roanoke.com

Phone Numbers: Main Switchboard: (800) 346-1234 or (540) 981-3340
Online phone directories list the number as (540) 981-3100.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/768/169

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Carole_Tarrant/527331566

Ning: http://mediageeks.ning.com/profile/CaroleTarrant

Jill Nevels-Haun, The News-Messenger, Fremont, Ohio

www.thenews-messenger.com

Mailing Address: 1700 Cedar St., Fremont, OH 43420

E-mail Address: JHaun@gannett.com

Phone Number: 419-334-1040

Biography:

Career summary: I've worked since 2003 as managing editor of The Herald-Dispatch.

I am the former regional editor of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky and was previously city editor of The Marietta Times in Ohio. I also was education reporter and assistant city editor at The Herald-Dispatch from 1995 to 1998.

Recent accomplishments: Selected to receive a year-long James K. Batten Fellowship and participated in the 2003-04 Breakthrough program. Received the 2005 Newspaper Association of America's Minority Fellowship and attended Poynter's Leadership for Managing Editors: Managing Today, Leading Long-Range program. Selected as NAA Fusion's Fellow Spotlight.

APME activities: Newsroom participation in Time-Out for Diversity and Accuracy programs.

APME should: Continue its commitment to newsrooms and continue offering practical, affordable training, such as NewsTrain. APME also should continue to be a resource for cutting-edge readership ideas and initiatives.

In my spare time: I paraglide, run and volunteer at various youth organizations. I also organize fundraising activities for my son's youth football league.

(Terms expiring in 2010)

Mark Bowden (see his Wikipedia resume.)

Executive Director of Iowa Board of Medicine, previous editor-in-chief of The Gazette Cedar Rapids

Mailing Address: 400 SW 8th St. Suite C, Des Moines, IA 50309-4686

E-mail Address: mark.bowden@iowa.gov

Phone Number: 515-281-6641

Biography: I'm a 28-year employee of Gazette Communications, where I have been editor since 1990; recipient of the Iowa Newspaper Association's master editor-publisher and distinguished service awards; trustee for Iowa Freedom of Information Council; a media coordinator for state courts in Iowa; 2003 International Reporting Project fellow; advisory board member for Drake University School of Journalism; board member of Mid-America Press Institute; a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Recent accomplishment: 2007 Pulitzer juror. APME activities: Completing second term on the APME board, and have assisted in marketing/communications, NewsTrain, credibility and readership projects and committee; editor of APME News and member of APME executive committee since 2005; past president of the Iowa APME.

APME should: Advise The Associated Press to ensure that state, national and international reports are locally relevant; help editors increase the diversity in their newsrooms and improve the performance of their staffs; offer best-practice approaches and techniques to assist newspapers and their Web sites expand readership/audience of news and information products and services. In my spare time: Assist in community service projects; spend time with my family; add to my collection of yard sticks.

--- August 29, 2008 Mark Bowden, former editor of The Gazette, has been hired as executive director of the Iowa Board of Medicine. Bowden, 55, of Johnston, started at The Gazette as assistant state government editor in 1979 and served as managing editor and then editor from 1990 until 2007. He will replace Ann Mowery, 58, who has been with the board for nearly 10 yearsand is retiring from state government in January. Bowden's salary has not been finalized. Mowery's salary this year is about $102,000. Bowden, who officially begins in December, said the administrative position is similar to his previous newspaper roles. "Accuracy, objectivity, thoroughness, ability to meet deadlines — the skill set is the same," he said. The Board regulates doctors, surgeons and licensed acupuncturists and investigates complaints.

Jon Broadbooks, The State Journal-Register, Springfield, Ill.

Mailing Address: State-Journal Register, One Copley Plaza, Springfield, IL 62701

E-mail Address: jon.broadbooks@sj-r.com

Phone Number: (217) 788-1505

Biography: Mr. Broadbooks is a Southerner who graduated from King College  (Presbyterian-affiliated) in Bristol, TN with a degree in history/political science.  His master's degree is in communications from U of Tenn at Knoxville. When in Mississippi, Broadbooks served as vice president for the Mississippi Center for Freedom of Information (2004-2006) and was on journalism advisory boards at U. of Mississippi and U of Southern Miss.

Blog: http://blogs.sj-r.com/editor/index.php/2008/08/14/marking-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-springfield-race-riot/

Peggy Bellows, Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

Mailing Address: 300 E. Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23219

E-mail Address: pbellows@timesdispatch.com

Phone Number: 804-649-6301

Jan Touney, Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa

 NEED CONTACT INFORMATION HERE (did I miss this somewhere?)

Newspaper Endorsements: McCain Republican Primaries 2008

                                            HRC Democratic Primaries 2008

Interview with Obama: http://videos.qctimes.com/p/video?id=1609167

Article Re: Obama: http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2007/12/23/opinion/opinion/doc476ae5a97e...

Adell Crowe (Her Facebook page lists her as in Nashville, Tennessee with USA Today.)

NEED MAILING ADDRESS AND PHONE NUMBER HERE.

E-mail Address: croweadell@gmail.com

Blog: http://localvoices.blogspot.com/

Biography: According to that blog profile, posted in April 2008, she accepted a voluntary buyout from USA Today in December 2007 and is looking for a new newspaper job.

Bob Heisse, Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.

Mailing Address: Centre Daily Times, 3400 E. College Ave, State College, PA 16801

E-mail Address: bheisse@centredaily.com

Phone Number: 814-231-4640

Jim Brady, washingtonpost.com, Washington, D.C.

Mailing Address: The Washington Post, 1150 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20071

E-mail Address: jimbradyva@aol.com

Phone Number: 202-334-6000

Biography: Biography

Relevant Information: In November 2007, the Washington Post was criticized by independent journalist Robert Parry for reporting on anti-Obama chain e-mails without sufficiently emphasizing to its readers the false nature of the anonymous claims.