Metromx Changes
April Denn [e-mail removed]
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Sales / AdOps teams,

I wanted to notify you of an upcoming change on the Metromix sites. In order to streamline our content and editorial efforts, we are planning to merge the TV channel and the Movies channel on our affiliated sites into one “Movies & TV” channel. This merger is tentatively slated for February 12, 2010. Essentially, all the existing TV channel content will be reassigned to the Movies Channel, and the Movies Channel will be appropriately renamed "Movies & TV".

Metromx Central House Ad Schedule
April Denn [e-mail removed]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:34 PM

Sales & AdOps Teams,

You may have noticed some new house ads running on your sites. Ads for Metromix New York and Metromix San Diego. These ads are the first of many to come, so we wanted to take a moment to cover all the details so you are in the loop.

Furman Bisher, a staple in Georgia journalism who retired from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in October, will contribute a frequent sports column for the Albany Herald, the paper announced Sunday.

Bisher, who at 91 has played golf with Bobby Jones and interviewed "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, was named sports editor of the Journal-Constitution in 1950 and has also written for Sporting news, Sports Illustrated and the Saturday Evening Post.

According to the Herald, Bisher will not write on set days, but will contribute frequently. His first column appeared Sunday.

Bisher has won the Red Smith Award (1988), the PGA's Lifetime Achievement in Journalism award and is a member of the International Golf Writers Hall of Fame, the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame, National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.

Deborah Howell, who as one of the first woman in a top editor position at a major newspaper, led the St. Paul Pioneer Press to two Pulitzer Prizes, died Saturday while on vacation in New Zealand, according to The Washington Post. She was 68.

Howell's family said she was struck by a vehicle.

Howell, who served as The Post's ombudsman from 2005 until late 2008, was the city editor and later an assistant managing editor at the Minneapolis Star in the 1970s, and managing editor and executive editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press in the 1980s, according to the Star Tribune.

She left Minnesota in 1990 to become Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Newhouse Newspapers, according to The Post.

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