Weaver Named Poynter Dean

By: Joe Strupp Janet Weaver, executive editor of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune, will become dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg. Fla., the newspaper reported Friday.

Weaver told staffers she would never have left the newsroom for another paper, but said the offer from Poynter was an opportunity "to affect the entire news industry that she could not turn down."

Publisher Diane McFarlin, who hired Weaver, immediately began a search for a replacement. Weaver will assume her new duties in one month.