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MAINE
Chris Harte, publisher and chairman of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, will leave the Star Tribune when the newspaper is scheduled to exit federal bankruptcy protection this fall. Harte was publisher and president of the Portland Press Herald from 1992 to 1994. His family owned the Harte-Hanks newspaper group, based in San Antonio, Texas, which owned several newspapers in New England. In 1995, the Harte-Hanks group sold the then-Middlesex News of Framingham, Mass., now the MetroWest Daily News; the then-News-Tribune of Waltham, Mass., now the Daily News Tribune; and the then-Daily Transcript, now the Daily News Transcript of Dedham, Mass., and their sister weeklies, to Community Newspaper Company, now owned by GateHouse Media, and based in Needham, Mass. Before that, he was publisher of the Centre Daily Times of State College, Pa., from 1986 to 1989 and of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal from 1989 to 1992. He was a corporate executive with Knight Ridder Newspapers Inc. in 1985 and 1986, and was a manager at its Miami Herald from 1983 to 1985. He is chief executive officer of Avista Capital Partners, a private equity investment company based in New York City that bought the Star Tribune in 2006. MASSACHUSETTS Christopher Rowland will take Peter Canellos’ place as chief of The Boston Globe’s Washington, D.C., bureau now that Canellos has become the Globe’s editorial page editor. Rowland has been the Globe’s political editor for the past two years, covering Boston City Hall and the Massachusetts Statehouse. Rowland has worked at the Globe since 2001. He has led the Globe’s West bureau and covered health care as a business reporter. Before that, he reported local and national politics from the statehouse for The Providence (R.I.) Journal for 12 years.
The Transitions were written, at least in part, from published reports by Ariana Figuera, an undergraduate student at the Northeastern University School of Journalism and member of the Bulletin staff, and Jen Slothower and Aaron Lester, graduate students at Northeastern’s School of Journalism and news staff coordinators for the Bulletin.
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Jeannine
Guttman, former editor and vice president of the Portland Press
Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, has been named communications director
for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs
by the ranking Republican member on the committee, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins
of Maine. Guttman spent 15 years at the Press Herald and Sunday Telegram.
She was let go when MaineToday Media Inc. completed the purchase June
15 of the newspapers from the Seattle Times Co. Guttman previously worked
for States News Service, reporting in Washington, D.C., and in a variety
of roles for Gannett News Service, reporting in the Indianapolis bureau
for several newspapers and then becoming bureau chief in Sacramento,
Calif., where she coordinated Gannett’s political coverage. She
was assistant managing editor of the Idaho Statesman of Boise in between
roles at Gannett, and eventually was national editor for Gannett in
Washington before moving to the Press Herald. Scott Wasser
has been named executive editor of the Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram,
and their sister daily newspapers, the Kennebec Journal of Augusta and
the Morning Sentinel of Waterville. Wasser had been managing editor
and vice president for news at the Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
where he has worked off and on since 1983. The Times-Leader is also
owned by Richard Connor, head of MaineToday Media, new owner of the
Maine newspapers. Wasser later became assistant general manager and
online editor before leaving in 2000 to pursue other journalism and
public relations jobs. He returned to the Times-Leader in 2008. Wasser
also writes about cars and has contributed to Road and Track and other
automotive publications.
Eric
Conrad, former executive editor of the Kennebec Journal of
Augusta and the Morning Sentinel of Waterville, has been named director
of marketing and communications at MaineGeneral Health, with main campuses
in Augusta and Waterville. Conrad was among those laid off when the
Journal and Morning Sentinel’s newspaper group, Blethen Maine
Newspapers, was sold recently to MaineToday Media. Conrad began his
journalism career as a reporter for 13 years in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
and Harrisburg, Pa. He then worked for 10 years at the Portland Press
Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, as sports editor, city editor and
managing editor. He came to the Journal and Morning Sentinel, where
he worked for two and a half years, after a year as editor of The News-Times
of Danbury, Conn.
David
Ertischek has been named editor of the West Roxbury Transcript
and Roslindale Transcript, effective June 25. He replaces Wayne
Braverman, who has become senior editor of the Allston-Brighton
TAB and the Dover-Sherborn Press. Valentina Zic, who
was editor of the Allston-Brighton TAB and Dover-Sherborn Press for
the past three years, has been named editor of the Needham Times and
its Web site, Wicked Local Needham, as of June 26. She replaces Debra
Filcman, former reporter and assistant editor at the Times,
who is leaving to become editor of the Times’ sister paper, the
Somerville Journal. Braverman was senior editor of the West Roxbury
Transcript and Roslindale Transcript for four years and worked for the
parent company’s Townonline news Web site before that. Ertischek
was previously assistant editor and sports editor for the West Roxbury
Transcript and Roslindale Transcript. Zic was assistant editor of the
Needham Times from 2003 to 2006. Zic has reported on several communities
in the MetroWest suburbs, including Needham, Newton, Wellesley, Dover
and Sherborn.
Mark
Cohen, vice president of advertising for Needham, Mass.-based
GateHouse Media New England, has been named chief operating office for
Pioneer Newspapers Inc. of Seattle, which owns 20 community newspapers
in the Northwest United States. Cohen has spent the past year at GateHouse’s
New England branch, which has nine dailies and 10 shoppers in Massachusetts
and Connecticut and 112 weeklies in Eastern Massachusetts. Before that,
he worked in newspapers for more than 25 years, including as vice president
of newspapers at Morris Communications, based in Augusta, Ga.; as vice
president for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., based in Birmingham,
Ala.; and as vice president of advertising for the Indiana group of
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