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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 9/20/2005 9:59:31 AM
Title: Mecklin resigns as SF Weekly editor
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From: John Mecklin
To: SF Weekly staff and freelancers
Re: My departure

Friends and countrymen

After eight-plus years here, I've decided to resign from SF Weekly. There are many reasons for the decision.

As some of you know, my wife is from New Orleans. She wants to help her birth city and her many relatives and friends who live there. They all survived Hurricane Katrina but could use support right now. My wife and I want to help provide it.

As a few of you know, I have finished a novel that - remarkably -- I don't hate. There are things I need to do if I hope to get it into print. Doing those things requires time that I haven't had.

And as all of you should know, and Ecclesiastes sets forth, "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose."

In 1993, when I left the Kennedy School of Government to start working at New Times in Phoenix, I would have scoffed at the notion that I'd be with the company more than 12 years later. It's been an odd and amazing playground to have run through, full of fun and sometimes bizarre people and stories, but the season is obviously over. I can feel it. It's just plain time - maybe past time -- to go.

In my season here, SF Weekly writers won the George Polk Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, the Medill School of Journalism's John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, and the University of Missouri's Lifestyle Journalism Award, among a whole long list of major national journalism honors. That's not to mention the scads of regional, state, and local awards Weekly writers have lined the walls with.

I feel blessed to have worked with the talented writers and editors who made such a record of achievement, and to have worked for the sparklingly successful publication that resulted. To the current staff, especially: Thank you for your consistent attention to journalistic excellence. It's been an honor to have collaborated with you. Let's
remember the experience, and one another.

And, of course, toast to them. Stay tuned for the drinking/reminiscence opportunities.

Mecklin

Postscript: I'll assist New Times with the transition for the next couple of weeks. The new editor, Tom Walsh, will begin October 3; my last day will be September 30. Walsh was the editor of the Sacramento News & Review for the previous five years, and prior to that, started the New Times Broward-Palm Beach from scratch, working there for three years.

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