Over a month ago, Adams Publishing Group fired the editor of a weekly in Athens, Ohio, after she warned readers about ads she considered sketchy. Corinne Colbert's firing prompted the resignation of most other journalists at The Athens News as well as its daily sister paper, The Athens Messenger. Today, APG Media of Ohio president Mark Cohen announced a new staff for both.
New editor Allan Brown introduced himself in a column, promising to earn readers' trust. A native of Toledo, Brown wrote that he has most recently worked in retail in Florida, but was the editor of the campus paper at the University of Toledo and has worked for several small papers.
Brown's first big change was to eliminate a popular anonymous forum called the Athens Voice. "While it is vital to receive communication from you, our readers, I prefer they take on the content of a letter to the editor, rather than anonymous posts," Brown wrote. "I encourage you to send those letters to us, following the guidelines established prior to my arrival. And, they definitely must be signed, with contact information provided. Open dialogue is key to progressing in these trying times and I encourage the open, honest and transparent way a letter to the editor provides for that."
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