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It may be a come down for Tina Brown to go from editor of The New Yorker and Talk magazine to a column in the Washington Post Style section, but there's precedent. Dennis Britton used to be the national editor and deputy managing editor of the L.A. Times, then he was editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times and later ran the Denver Post. After doing the dotcom thing, he surfaced last year as the tourism and Indian gambling reporter for the Palm Spring Desert Sun, and has been on the way back up ever since. In June Britton became assistant business editor, and now he's been promoted to assistant managing editor for local news.
Though he was much-reviled while at the Denver Post, I wanted to give a personal shoutout to Dennis Britton, who was one of my early journalism heroes. As a young cub collecting prep sports scores and fish reports for the Times, he was incredibly supportive of my goals and aspirations. He also wrote the appeal letter which kept me from getting redirected from UC Berkeley after I'd applied there. Thanks, Dennis.
Posted by: Erik Himmelsbach at October 23, 2003 11:10 AMDennis Britton was a young cub collecting prep sports scores and fish reports for the Times?
Posted by: Doej at October 25, 2003 08:34 PM
of LA Observed
Tina who? You buried the lead.
Posted by: joseph at October 22, 2003 06:58 PM