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Vol. 24, No. 3/Spring 2002

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By Kathryn Pease


On the Move

On April 1, Cathy Tierney became the Director of News Research at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Before accepting the Post-Dispatch's offer, Cathy was Chief Librarian of the Akron Beacon Journal for over 26 years, and then Librarian of Southern Ohio College (Akron). In 2000 she won the Freedom Forum/Special Libraries Association International Library Program Fellowship for Asia (Hong Kong, Macau, China), returning in October/November, 2001 for an encore program for them in Hong Kong, Macau, China and the Philippines.

The Winston-Salem Journal library welcomed a new staff member in March. Julie Harris, recent LIS graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joined the staff in the newly created position of Database Manager. She will be responsible for text and photo archives and all microtext. Ginny Hauswald, News Library Director, reported that Julie’s SLA membership application was in the mail the day she joined the staff. Julie has been with the Journal for the past 13 years, first as a copy editor and most recently as an assistant features editor. She is the third Journal employee to earn a library degree in the past ten years.

On January 8, Marlene Koenig, formerly of The Daily Telegraph’s (UK) Washington, DC bureau, began a new career as Librarian with the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Kathleen Cottay has been promoted to Chief Librarian of American Media, Inc. in Boca Raton, Florida. She is now in charge of both the photo and text archives. AMI is still locked out of their building due to anthrax contamination. It is still unknown if they will ever recover any of their collections. Temporary space has been secured for the next two years and the library has started the process of rebuilding and replacing some five million photographs, 4,000 books and 30 years of tabloid history.

Awards & Acknowledgements

NewsLib doyenne Barbara Semonche, Park Library Director at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will receive the SLA President's Award at the June 2002 annual conference in Los Angeles. The award recognizes her contribution as chair of the 2000-2001 SLA Task Force on Membership. Co-chair Tom Rink and the chairs of the other four SLA Task Forces will also receive Awards. The web site for the Membership Task Force is: www.ibiblio.org/journalism/slataskmem.html.

Judi Marriott, a researcher for the Chicago Tribune, was honored with an award for outstanding professional performance at the 2001 Jones-Beck Awards ceremony held February 1. Judi has been with the Tribune for 24 years and is widely known and appreciated in the newsroom for her excellence and her enthusiasm for news research.

Susan Ebbs, a researcher at The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, did the data analysis for a series named as a 2001 IRE finalist. She shared a byline on two of the stories in the series, "A New Segregation."

Ric Russo of the Bradenton Herald (Fla.) has been nominated by the American Heart Association’s St. Petersburg chapter to receive a Media Award for his August 18, 2001 Wellbeing cover story titled, "Wrestler Makes Healthy Choices to Beat Heart Disease." Last summer, his paper’s Features Editor had another cover story fall through and asked Ric if he could throw together a health-related story complete with art in about three days. Ric recalled interviewing a man who gave up his wrestling career due to a form of heart disease called cardiomyopathy. Ric called him up, researched the disease, and wrote a story complete with a sidebar about his battle back and how he had to completely change his lifestyle to beat the disease and return to work.

Nora Paul and Kathleen A. Hansen of the University of Minnesota’s New Institute for Media Studies and the Minnesota Journalism Center, respectively, were on the cover of the April 2002 issue of Library Journal. They were interviewed for the story "Reclaiming News Libraries" about their research on newspaper libraries in crisis. It includes a sidebar by Ginny Everett, Director of Information Services for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Not that we’re keeping tabs, but here are some past personalities to grace recent covers: Susan Fifer Canby, Library Journal, July 2001; Lany McDonald, Library Journal, November 1999; and Ginny Everett, Online Magazine, November 1998.

And finally, I, Kathryn Pease, of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, won the 2001 Editor’s Award for Support Staffer of the Year at the paper’s annual Pettijohn Awards ceremony held February 26. In a state of shock and surprise, I was overheard paraphrasing another award winner with the exclamation, "They really like me!"

Congratulations to everyone!


Kathryn Pease is the Editorial Research Supervisor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. You can contact her at kpease@sun-sentinel.com.