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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 11/8/2006 3:42:30 PM
Title: Chicago Tribune names two new managing editors
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
From: [Chicago Tribune editor] Lipinski, Ann Marie
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:48 PM
To: zzCTC.ALLEDITORIAL
Subject: To the Staff

Dear Colleagues,

I am sorry that news of Jim O’Shea’s departure for Los Angeles came in such a rushed fashion, as so many of you were focused on election night. It was never the plan that the announcement be made in that fashion but, as you know, news happens. I was pleased to see your kind expressions of support for Jim last night while you retained your professionalism and rigor for the work at hand. The paper shows it.

Jim has been a tremendous colleague and friend and I am going to miss him dearly. An editor’s relationship with her managing editor is important in a thousand ways, and I have been luckier than I can say to have been running this great paper in partnership with Jim. He has been a source of wisdom, inspiration, courage, leadership and, very importantly, humor. You all know he’s a great journalist; I hope you also know how proud he is of you. His love for the Tribune is deep and this decision to leave has not been easy. But he goes believing, as our coverage said today, that he can be helpful in Los Angeles. I believe that too.

Among Jim’s numerous contributions to the Tribune was his appointment and grooming of many excellent journalists, including the two departmental deputies who worked for him directly. With his departure, I would like to announce that George de Lama is named Managing Editor for News and Jim Warren Managing Editor for Features. This is a structure that is familiar at the Tribune, and the one that was in place just prior to our current one. It is also one that I believe will move us most seamlessly through this transition.

George and Jim are both gifted journalists and managers with long records of excellence at the Tribune. George has worked his way up from summer intern to the masthead of the paper, along the way excelling at every job from metro reporter to national and foreign correspondent, chief of correspondents, national and foreign editor and deputy managing editor. The Tribune won the Pulitzer for International Reporting on his watch, along with numerous other honors. George also spearheaded the Tribune Company effort that resulted in the opening of a permanent news bureau in Havana, the first American newspaper office in Cuba in 35 years. He is a graceful and gifted writer with a superb grasp of national and world affairs and a great love and knowledge of Chicago, his birthplace.

Following reporting stints at the Chicago Sun-Times and the Newark Star-Ledger, Jim came to the Tribune and excelled at a number of reporting assignments, including labor, media and legal affairs. He distinguished his beat coverage with tenacious reporting and an eye for exclusives. As an editor, Jim brought great sophistication and energy to Tempo. He then turned toward Washington and, as the Tribune bureau chief, forged a new multi-media approach that carried our journalism to readers and viewers well beyond Chicago. While deputy managing editor overseeing the paper’s superb features portfolio, the paper won its first ever Pulitzer for Feature Writing.

I feel very fortunate to have George and Jim as colleagues and look forward to working with them in their expanded roles. In the coming days, we will be discussing how to redirect some of the responsibilities that Jim O’Shea has held. We will let you know the ways in which those will be divided up among us.

As I mentioned yesterday, we will gather in the newsroom at 2 p.m. today so that Jim can say a few words. I’ll see you then.

Ann Marie

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