Friday, February 25, 2005
Grenades, Miracles and The Post's New Ombudsman
Howell to Become Next Post Ombudsman
Deborah Howell has announced her retirement from the Newhouse newspaper organization, and her eventual move to The Washington Post to serve as its ombudsman. Deborah knows her stuff, and she is, as she describes herself in the WaPo piece linked above, "feisty and aggressive."
Grab: In fact, Howell wrote, she keeps a dummy hand grenade on one side of her desk, as well as a jar inscribed "Miracles" on the other. "If one doesn't work," she said, "I can always try the other."
This is wistful news to me. Deborah oversees my client, Religion News Service, for Newhouse. She's been a terrific partner in building RNS--which is the only secular newswire which focuses exclusively on religion as a news story.
But what a great gig to move to, especially in this time of serious newspaper readership transition. I believe Deborah will help the Post navigate that transition well.
Deborah, all of us associated with the Newhouse news organization are very proud of you.
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Deborah Howell has announced her retirement from the Newhouse newspaper organization, and her eventual move to The Washington Post to serve as its ombudsman. Deborah knows her stuff, and she is, as she describes herself in the WaPo piece linked above, "feisty and aggressive."Grab: In fact, Howell wrote, she keeps a dummy hand grenade on one side of her desk, as well as a jar inscribed "Miracles" on the other. "If one doesn't work," she said, "I can always try the other."
This is wistful news to me. Deborah oversees my client, Religion News Service, for Newhouse. She's been a terrific partner in building RNS--which is the only secular newswire which focuses exclusively on religion as a news story.
But what a great gig to move to, especially in this time of serious newspaper readership transition. I believe Deborah will help the Post navigate that transition well.
Deborah, all of us associated with the Newhouse news organization are very proud of you.
