Freep's Hunke named publisher at USA Today; New Freep publisher/editor

Hunke moves up the ladder to USA Today publisher.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990428045


Which makes Susie Ellwood the new CEO of Detroit Media Partnership and Paul Anger the new publisher and editor of the Freep.

http://freep.com/article/20090429/BUSINESS06/90429048/3+promoted+to+key+roles+at+Free+Press++DMP

 

Susie Ellwood... I weep.

 

Meh.

 

In the midst of all this crap, though, Paul Anger remains one of the good people in this business in my mind. If I was at a paper and hanging on by my fingernails, he's one of the people I'd be wanting to help find a way to make the best of the situation.

 

I liked him too when I interviewed with him -- though, rats, he didn't hire me. I just hope he sees this promotion as the challenge of his lifetime and comes with real, bold, smart ideas for tactics worth trying, the sense to see and scrap those that aren't, and some real lines in the sand to draw, as a journalist and a man, when Gannett pushes too far.

 

Paul doesn't waste anything. The accomplishments in Miami weren't from extravagance like some sports sections of that era, but from getting the most out of pretty lean space and staffing.