Changes at the Daily Journal
As happens here at the Daily Journal from time to time, we are having a splash of turnover in our newsroom staff. Some of you may have noticed the byline of David Minton. He is our new education reporter. He will cover Ukiah Unified School District, Mendocino Community College and The Mendocino County Office of Education. Also he will cover a variety of other things like children and youth, health and transportation, and write features. His phone number is 468-3522 and his email will be udjdm@pacific.net as soon as I get it set up - which should be today.
Our law enforcement and courts reporter Ben Brown is leaving us Aug. 29 for San Jose and we have a Humboldt State journalism school about-to-be-graduate Zack Cinek coming in. Zack hails from Willits and will serve a five-week internship with us to fulfill his last semester of course work. We hope to make him a permanent part of our staff at the end of that time. He will takeover the police/court beat. That beat also includes agriculture and the environment. After Aug. 29 contact Zack at 468-3521 or udjzc@pacific.net
Our sports editor Anthony Dion is leaving us for a new job in Colorado. His last day is Saturday. On Sunday I will become sports editor for a time so expect the sports pages to be abbreviated until we find a replacement. I have interviewed six candidates from all around the U.S. this week and will offer the job to someone today. If I get an acceptance this weekend I hope to have a new sports editor in place by mid Sept. at the latest. In the meantime all you sports coaches, parents and players, please use our web site sports reporting feature or call up at 468-3518 to report scores or just email udjsports@pacific.net with your game reports. I will have a photographer out and about shooting local games but I won't always have the results right away unless people call in. I will have no one to actually cover games. Our part time sports writer position is also still open, so anyone locally who wants to write sports and can learn to lay out pages on our Quark desktop publishing system should come into the office at 590 S. School St and fill out an application.