The NAA has package prices for these events and is handling all hotel arrangements. For more information, call the NAA at (703) 902-1792 or e-mail sparj@naa.org.

-- dmc

Bit bucket ...

"The first rule of analyzing on-line media is never look at Wired as an example."
--Stuart Ugelow, CEO and editor-in-chief, Student.Net, at Interactive Newspapers '98

New media mavens: At Media General Inc. of Richmond, Va., Richard Shute has been named manager of technology at the New Media Group. Previously, Shute was manager of advanced technologies in the information services department and has been with the company since 1981. ... At Cox Interactive Media of Atlanta, J. Lacey Lewis has been named director of finance; previously, Lewis was director of business operations for Cox Communications Inc. ...

Real bit: At Guy Gannett Communications of Portland, Maine, Warren Watson has resigned. Watson, an industry leader in issues of newspaper design and display advertising design, held a variety of positions in his 10-year career at Guy Gannett, including most recently executive editor of the Central Maine Newspapers, publishers of the Kennebec Journal in Augusta and Central Maine Morning Sentinel in Waterville. ...

Syndicate syncopation: The Los Angeles Times Syndicate of Los Angeles has announced a senior management reorganization: Gary Neeleman has been named executive vice president (previously he was veep and international sales director); Steven Christensen has been named senior vice president of new media (previously he was veep and general manager of the U.S. syndicate); Anita Tobias has been named vice president of the U.S. syndicate (previously she was an executive veep at Creators Syndicate); Timothy Lange has been named executive editor (previously he was managing editor); Jeffrey Lin has been named managing director of new business development (previously he was a systems developer and had established and managed the syndicate's Hong Kong office); Beth Barber is now assistant vice president/managing director of the New York office (previously she was in charge of East Coast accounts), and Dylan Cohen is assistant manager of the New York office (previously he was Barber's assistant). ...

Vendor volubility: At Alki Software of Seattle, Bob Gale has been named senior producer; previously, Gale was director of new media at The Herald of Everett, Wash. ... At Digital Technology International in Orem, Utah, Robert Kleiner has been named managing director Europe, based at DT's European headquarters in Lenggries, Germany. ... At FutureTense Inc. of Acton, Mass., Carol Mitchell has been named vice president of sales; previously she was veep at Inso Corp. ... At Monotype Systems Inc. of Rolling Meadows, Ill., Antoinette Balthazor has been named marketing specialist. ... At Linotype Color Publishing Solutions of Long Island, N.Y., Edda Tusinac has been named interim general manager; previously she was with Caere, NetExpress and Xerox. She replaces Daniel Herzka, who resigned to "rekindle native Israeli entrepreneurial ties" as one graphic arts newsletter put it. ... At System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento, Joanna Jullien, a former SII employee, has been named director of customer support services; most recently she had been overseeing the technical and marketing operations for a $20 million energy service project sponsored by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Also at SII, Lance Tressler has been promoted to director of project management; he has been with the company since 1992. ... At UMI Co., of Ann Arbor, Mich., Joseph Reynolds has been named president and chief executive officer. Previously, Reynolds was the CEO of the ITP School and Career Education Group, a unit of the Thomson Corp. ... At Unisys Corp. of Blue Bell, Pa., George Carville has been named a manager in the printing and publishing group; previously he was in marketing at Advanced Technical Solutions of Wilmington, Mass. Also at Unisys, Paul Williams has been named a consultant in the printing and publishing group; previously Williams was systems editor at the Patriot Ledger of Quincy, Mass. He will be based in Burlington, Mass. ...

Confabs: The Society for News Design's semi-annual New Media Workshop will be May 5 in Seattle. Speakers will include Jay Small of the Indianapolis Star and News; Joseph Trotz of the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle; Galie Jean-Louis and John Stanford of Msnbc; Rochelle Lavin, formerly of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, and Travis Smith of the Los Angeles Times. For more information, call SND at (401) 276-2100 or send e-mail to snd@snd.org. ... The annual show and conference of the Association for Information and Image Management International will be May 10-14 in Anaheim, Calif. Speakers will include Timothy Berners-Lee, of the W3 Consortium at the MIT Lab for Computer Science and inventor of the World-Wide Web, and Jeff Papows of Lotus Development Corp. Contact Aiim at (800) 477-2446 or via e-mail at: aiim@aiim.org. ... The topic is ethics at the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Annual Editors and Publishers Conference May 17-19 in Tampa, Fla. Speakers include Rich Oppel of the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, Ruth Gersh of the Associated Press's The Wire, John Haile of the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, Ed Jones of the Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, John Jones Jr. of the Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun and Ed Manassah of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. For more information, call (404) 256-0444 or send e-mail to snpa10@aol.com. ... The Digital Photography Workshop, sponsored by the Rochester (N.Y.) Institute of Technology, will next be held May 27-29 in Rochester. Topics will include the basics of electronic photography, film scanner basics and applications, monitor calibration basics, electronic image editing programs, communicating with photo labs and service bureaus, producing hard-copy output of electronic images and image transmission and compression. For more information, call (716) 475-7090, ext. 815, or send e-mail to David Tontarski at dct1020@rit.edu. ... The annual Advertising Conference sponsored by the North Carolina Press Association will be May 29-30 in Chapel Hill. For more information, call (919) 787-7443 or send e-mail to ncpateri@aol.com. ... The Newspaper Association of America's annual Classified Conference will be May 29-June 3 in Boston. Speakers will include Terry McDermott of the National Association of Realtors and Paul Holloway of the National Automobile Dealers Association. For more information, call NAA at (703) 902-1600 or send e-mail to naafeds@naa.org. ... Pre-publishing -- the new pre-press for modern publishing -- is an IFRA symposium scheduled for June 9-10 in Berlin. Scheduled speakers include Stephan Conaway, formerly of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Allan Marshall of Associated Newspapers of London and Kerry Northrup, formerly of Gannett Co. Inc. who is now with IFRA. For more information, call {49} (6151) 733-6 or e-mail muellerstephan@IFRA.com. ... #

From THE COLE PAPERS, May 1998, Copyright © 1998, All Rights Reserved.