Last Updated: September 24, 2003
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Gilbert Bailon was elected
treasurer-designate of the American Society of Newspaper Editors during its
fall board meeting, in Portland, Ore. on Sept. 19. Bailon will become treasurer
of the group in April, at the annual convention, and rise through the officer
ranks each year until reaching the ASNE presidency in April 2007.
Bailon has been vice president
and executive editor of The Dallas Morning News since 1998. He started as a
reporter at the News in 1986, after having worked as a reporter at several other
newspapers.
"I am very honored
to be selected by the ASNE board to join the leadership ladder. I feel in tune
with the mission of ASNE through years of work on committees and the board itself,"
Bailon said. "My desire is to continue propelling ASNE tenets of credibility,
accuracy and passion for journalism."
"I also want to strive
toward innovations to change content and its delivery to better fit a changing
U.S. demography, which is essential to growing newspaper readership in the future,"
Bailon added.
Bailon joined ASNE in 1994
and has been a member of the board of directors since 1999. He has also been
active in ASNE committee work.
ASNE President Peter Bhatia,
executive editor of The Oregonian, Portland, said, "Gilbert has been a
stalwart for ASNE and for our industry. He was an outstanding diversity chair
for ASNE and continues to be at the front of the work on those efforts. And,
he will be the first former NAHJ president to serve as ASNE president -- an
important first. As his current works demonstrates, he has been and is a journalistic
innovator. He will be a great leader for the Society."
Bailon joins Bhatia; Karla
Garrett Harshaw, editor, Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun and senior editor, Cox
Community Newspapers, vice president; Rick Rodriguez, executive editor, The
Sacramento (Calif.) Bee, secretary; and, David Zeeck, executive editor, The
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash., treasurer; in ASNE’s leadership.
ASNE, founded in 1922, with
about 800 members, is the main organization of the directing editors of daily
newspapers in the Americas. The organization is leading efforts to increase
diversity in America’s newsrooms, bolster media credibility and improve high
school journalism.
For more information, please
contact Kevin Wilcox, communications director, at 703/453-1132 or kwilcox@asne.org.
For a photo, please see http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=915
