Executive SE, Los Angeles Newspaper Group

He is trying some things in Salt Lake City, a market that has some potential.

 

Hey did anyone take this gig?

 

Anastasi was great to work with. He and Doug Jacobs were a good compliment, with Doug handling some of the more difficult writers, the in-office politics, etc., and Mike doing much of the day-to-day grunt work.
Michael Rosenthal, who went to San Diego, I believe, also was there, along with Rick Hazeltine.
It was a good group and I really enjoyed myself. My relocation out of the area, in retrospect, was a big mistake.

 

The Executive SE position is still open. Although I have been told the paper is close to filling the position. By whom is of great interest.
As for Anastasi and Jacobs, they had their flaws. Who doesn't? But at least they gave the sports section some direction. At present, there are two guys doing the job four did when the section had Jacobs, Stas, Rosenthal and Hazeltine. Anyone interested should know that and also know that there are little if any reinforcements on the horizon.

 

This from: laobserved.com
LANG names a sports editor
Kevin Modesti, a columnist at the Daily News, becomes the first sports editor of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group chain. This means he oversees the increasingly shared sports coverage of the Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, South Bay Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Pasadena Star-News.



Kevin is a great guy. He has worked there forever. Really solid columnist. Really solid sportswriter.
Two questions:
1 -- What took them so long to fill this spot?
2 -- Why would he want all the headaches involved in overseeing what are now a bunch of crappy papers.

 

Since it's Singleton, probably to just save money. And I'll put the odds at 1 percent they fill Modesti's position. Did they even bring in anyone else to interview?

And, yes, there will be many headaches overseeing those other papers, all of which, as has been mentioned before, are shells of their former selves.

 

Modesti's a good guy, good writer. I echo those thoughts without hesitation.

I have high hopes he can help raise the overall level. Maybe with some quality communication between those various newspapers, there can be better results. Seems if there is a high-quality journalist at the Inland Valley paper, they might still get passed over in favor of someone . . .not as good . . . . . from the flagship. Maybe with an overseeing editor, that can change?

Aw, hell . . .what color is the sky in my world?

 

Kevin is a smart guy, a serious guy and a damn fine journalist.

By promoting him, I wonder if they'll just go with Tom Hoffarth and Steve Dilbeck as their columnists or if they will promote someone else to his old spot.

Congrats to Kevin

 

Las Vegas is a different chain, but the R-J also did a search before promoting a columnist to SE. Is this a trend for that size of a product? The R-J did bring in a columnist when Hawk moved over.

 

Actually, Ed Graney (and no, I'm not ripping you for spelling it wrong, like several people on here surely would.)