APSE

APSE’s Great Lakes Region will hold its annual region meeting on Monday, April 19 in Chicago. Details are forthcoming for the day of workshops and discussion, which will take place at The Tribune building.

Thursday, Jan. 21 is the 35th anniversary of Robin Herman and Marcel St. Cyr becoming the first female sports reporters to enter a locker room for post-game interviews. Herman was a reporter at the New York Times and St. Cyr was working for CKLM Radio in Montreal when the two women broke the locker room barrier after [...]

Hank Winnicki, Assistant Managing Editor for Sports at Newsday, has been elected vice chair of the Northeast Region. He replaces Matt Pepin of Boston.com, who has become chair of the region. Winnicki joined the Long Island-based paper in 2004 as the Night Sports Editor. He was named Sports Editor in August of 2006. Before Newsday, Winnicki spent 11 [...]

Paul Vigna, sports editor of the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News, has been elected vice chair of the Mid-Atlantic Region. It’s Vigna’s second stint in an APSE leadership position. He served as chair of the same region in 1996-1997 while sports editor of the York Daily Record. Vigna’s election follows the departure from the region of former chair Judy Connolly, [...]

A former United Parcel Service truck driver has been charged with three traffic violations in an Oct. 5 crash that killed Baltimore Sun business editor Tim Wheatley and severely injured his 9-year-old daughter, Baltimore County police said this week. Wheatley was a longtime member of APSE and former second vice president of the organization. Sarah, Tim’s [...]

Sports writer Phil Jasner of the Philadelphia Daily News has been selected to the Temple University School of Communications and Theater’s Hall of Fame. Jasner, class of 1964, has covered the Sixers and the NBA for the Daily News on a full-time basis since 1981 and has been a member of the sports staff since 1972.

Longtime columnist Bill Conlin of the Philadelphia Daily News has been inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame as a Legacy of Excellence winner, the third Daily News sports writer to receive that honor in the Hall’s six years. Conlin has been a columnist at the Daily News since 1987, and previously covered Penn State [...]

Julie Cart has been selected as the 2010 Mary Garber Pioneer Award winner by the Association for Women in Sports Media. Cart has been at the Los Angeles Times since 1983 and recently received journalism’s most coveted honor — the Pulitzer Prize. She was recognized in explanatory journalism for a series about fire fighting. While she has [...]

Past APSE President Paul Anger has been named winner of the 2009 Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award by the National Press Foundation. Anger, editor and publisher of the Detroit Free Press, is to be honored at the NPF’s annual fund-raising dinner Feb. 16 in Washington, D.C. Judges cited Anger’s contributions to the innovative publishing model [...]

Tim Burke, executive editor of The Palm Beach Post, today was named publisher for Palm Beach Newspapers Inc., which includes The Post, the Palm Beach Daily News and La Palma. Burke is a past president of APSE.