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June 24, 2004
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New
editor named
by JUDY HODGSON
After two-plus years as Journal
editor, Keith Easthouse is moving on to the next stage of
his career, which will likely include free-lance work. (He recently
had a story published in Coast and Ocean magazine.) Under
his guidance the Journal continued its growth in circulation
(from to 18,000 to 21,000), in number of pages and in quality
journalism. (See last week's column, "Bragging rights.")
Keith's work, particularly his expertise in complicated environmental
stories such as last week's "Plight of the Plover,"
will be missed.
Thankfully, we didn't have far
to look in our search for a new editor. Emily Gurnon has been
a part-time senior staff writer and copy editor for us for more
than a year.
Emily earned a master's of journalism
and a master's of art (Latin American studies) from Berkeley
in 1993. She was a reporting intern for the Chicago Tribune
and a staff writer for the Contra Costa Times and the
San Francisco Examiner. Since moving to Humboldt County
with her husband and two children in 2000, Emily has worked as
a free-lance reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a
part-time instructor at Humboldt State University.
Emily has won numerous awards
for her writing, including back-to-back awards from the California
Newspaper Publishers Association in 2003 and 2004 for work published
in the Journal.
Born and raised in Minnesota,
Emily brings the number of Journal staffers with Midwest
roots to four. Former copy editor Howard Seemann, who still drops
by occasionally to help out, is a Minnesota native. Susan Dodd,
advertising manager, spent 25 years of her career there before
heading back west, and advertising rep Ryan Palmer is another
transplant.
Must be something about those
Minnesota winters.
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