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Posted on 08/16/2002 9:38:26 AM PDT by churchillbuff
Posted on Tue, Aug. 13, 2002
Inquirer names a managing editor
Anne Gordon, the editor in charge of arts and features coverage at The Inquirer, yesterday was named the newspaper's managing editor. The job is the second-highest position in the newsroom, with oversight of day-to-day operations.
Gordon, whose title had been deputy managing editor/arts and features, takes a job vacated in January by Phillip Dixon. Dixon said at the time he was looking to work outside newspapers. He recently was named head of the journalism department at Howard University in Washington.
The announcement of Gordon's appointment to a post that had gone unfilled for seven months was met with applause by her newsroom colleagues.
"I am delighted to be standing here in front of all you today as the managing editor of the best damn newspaper, period," she said.
Inquirer editor Walker Lundy turned to Gordon after a national search that had some staffers wondering if it would ever end. "I spoke to quite a few candidates from a diverse pool of editors from papers large and small... . I'm convinced Anne is the best person for the job," he said.
Gordon came to The Inquirer in April 1999 to oversee a variety of daily and Sunday features sections. She was put in charge of all arts and features coverage in May 2000.
She is a native of Denver and a 1979 graduate of the University of Denver, with a degree in speech pathology and audiology. She began her journalism career in 1981 as a reporter for the Rocky Mountain Business Journal in Denver.
She was an assistant business editor at the Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) Sun-Sentinel; business editor and then assistant managing editor of the Denver Post; and assignment manager for the news operation at KCNC-TV in Denver.
From September 1993 to February 1999, Gordon was editor of the Sunday magazine at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
During a break from the news business in the early 1990s, Gordon wrote A Book of Saints, about saints and sanctity from ancient to modern times, and served as communications director for the Colorado Democratic Party during Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
Gordon, 45, is married to Phillip Berman, who owns an international yacht brokerage. They have a 12-year-old son, Aaron.
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No, no, no, child ... Go to work for the Democratic Party. THAT gives you the background and training to be like George Stephanopoulos -- a real reporter.
That would be a white female liberal and a black male liberal and an Asian-American liberal and a South Seas Islander liberal and a wheelchair-bound liberal and a young liberal and a retirement-age liberal and liberals with big jobs within the Democratic party and liberals with little jobs within the Democratic party and even people outside the Democratic party such as Greens...we want a newspaper that Looks Like America, after all...
You mean the laughably LIBERAL Tallahassee Democrat. They don't call it the Democrat for nothing.
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