Posted July 25, 2006
Announcement from Paul Anger, Free Press Editor:
Free Press Public Editor John X. Miller will soon move to a new role being created in the Detroit Newspaper Partnership. John will be director/community affairs, working with the partnership as well as both newspapers. Significantly, he will manage and direct Detroit Free Press Charities, an effort so important to this newspaper and the community for so long. Programs within Free Press Charities include Summer Dreams, Gift of Reading and Ruth Alden Fund.
He will also work on some ways to get folks from throughout the building more involved with community volunteering as opportunities present themselves.
John has been working on some reader outreach programs for the Free Press newsroom and will complete those projects even as he works into his new duties effective Aug. 1. The reader outreach programs will include tours of the community for Free Press staffers and panels of readers addressing our key topics. He will have more details on that soon.
John has served the Free Press with distinction as public editor, and his skills and experience as both an editor and a community player will serve him and our customers well in his new position.
We will be looking quickly at how the Free Press newsroom can pick up his public-editor duties, which include tracking corrections and being a contact for readers. Caesar Andrews will be looking into that, and if you have thoughts, please let Caesar and me know.
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