By: Lucia Moses Browne Joins Krenek At Petplace.com
The New York Daily News announced a string of new hires and
promotions aimed at beefing up its investigative news coverage while
downplaying the latest departure of one of its editors.
Arthur Browne, a 27-year veteran of the Daily News, quit as
senior managing editor to edit PetPlace.com, an Internet startup. He
started working July 6 for former Daily News Editor in Chief
Debby Krenek, a longtime colleague who was replaced in March by Sunday
Editor Edward Kosner. No replacement has been named.
Both Browne and Kosner said the former left on good terms. 'I felt like
it was time for me to go,' Browne said. 'At some point, I took stock of
what I'd like to do and thought I'd like to go to the Internet.'
In addition to Browne and Krenek, the tabloid has shed at least two
other midlevel editors and shuffled its editor lineup in recent months.
'Some people are leaving, many more are coming,' said Senior Executive
Editor Michael Goodwin, who recently became Kosner's No. 2 editor.
'That's the newspaper business. It disrupts only in the sense that new
people are sitting at news desks. From the readers' point of view, the
paper's getting better.'
Among changes announced July 6, former Sunday Sports Editor Teri
Thompson was hired as deputy managing editor for investigations,
heading up a new sports investigation team - which the Daily
News believes to be the first at any paper in the country. Ten
other new writers and editors were hired.
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Lucia Moses (lmoses@editorandpublisher.com) is an associate editor for
Editor & Publisher magazine.
(c) Copyright 2000, Editor & Publisher
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