LATINO ELECTED:
Rick Rodríguez, executive editor of The Sacramento Bee, was elected treasurer-designate of the American Society of Newspaper Editors during the association's fall board meeting in Minneapolis Nov. 6. He will assume the treasurer's position in April and become the first Latino president of the association in 2005. ASNE is a professional association of 830 editors representing about 350 U.S. daily newspapers.
"I'm very honored to be on the ladder," Rodriguez said. "ASNE has a long and deep history of standing for the principles of the First Amendment and improving newspapers. I hope I can carry on these traditions."
Rodríguez has served on ASNE's board of directors since 1997 and chaired its diversity, international and readership issues committees.
"Rick Rodríguez is a man of great stature," ASNE President Tim McGuire said. "He is a great addition to the ASNE ladder. He will be the first Latino president of ASNE."
HOAX UNCOVERED:
Marilyn Garateix, assistant metro editor for the Boston Globe, is featured in the November edition of the American Journalism Review discussing how the Globe unveiled a hoax by a Hawaiian man who claimed his son and daughter-in-law were passengers on one of the two planes that crashed into the World Trade Center Sept. 11.
Curtis Larson told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that his son Jude and his wife Natalie were passengers on one of the two planes. The Associated Press added their names to its list of victims on its Web site.
Garateix, who handled coverage of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, told AJR that the paper uncovered the hoax by checking the passenger manifests of the flights. Larson's son E-mailed the Star-Bulletin Sept. 16 to say that he and his wife were alive and well.
