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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 12/15/2006 11:25:53 AM
Title: Gyllenhaal become Miami Herald executive editor
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Star Tribune publisher Keith Moyer's e-mail to his staff

Goodbye To Anders Gyllenhaal

After almost five years at the Star Tribune, our editor, Anders Gyllenhaal, has been called to a new challenge: to be the executive editor of the Miami Herald, another McClatchy newspaper and the paper where, earlier in his career, he earned a good many of his journalistic stripes.

As Anders said in a note to the newsroom: "I want you to know this has been a very difficult decision that has kept me awake many nights. In the end, my family and I decided to take a kind of homecoming, returning to the place where Beverly and I met, where our children were born and where I had my journalistic upbringing. We’re leaving sooner than I ever expected, but the leadership of the newsroom will be in extremely good hands."

The editor in Miami is retiring, and Anders is the natural choice to lead yet another McClatchy newspaper to the kind of accomplishments the Star Tribune has achieved under his ambitious and thoughtful guidance.

In his time here, Anders has led the Star Tribune through many positive changes: the redesign of the newspaper and website; the creation of a variety of new sections; the integration of the print and online operations; the launch of three new weekly news sections; and the modernization of how the newsroom operates.

As we all know, these are some of the most challenging times ever for newspapers, and no one is more up to the challenge than Anders. He is positive, determined, passionate and committed to the highest ideals of journalism.

Personally, I will miss him deeply -- not only for his immense talent and broad-minded intellect but also for his friendship, which has been enduring through the toughest debates and hardest decisions we have worked through together.

Anders told the newsroom: "It has been a true privilege to be a part of the Star Tribune, a great newspaper that has served this community so well at the same time as it's worked to create a modern news organization. It's been a difficult decision to leave, but the leadership of this newsroom will be in very good hands."

And the newsroom in Miami also will be in very good hands.

Fortunately, we have a little more time with Anders. He will not leave officially until February, allowing us to work out a smooth transition.

I will start now looking for a new editor. But I will not be trying to replace Anders. He is one of a kind.

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