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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 4/23/2008 1:48:01 PM
Title: Laymance named Post-Dispatch Sports AME
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo to St. Louis Post-Dispatch staff

April 23

We are delighted to announce that Reid Laymance is our new Assistant Managing Editor for Sports.

Reid comes to us from the Boston Globe, where he is the senior assistant sports editor. Boston is a legendary sports town and for many years the Globe has published one of the finest sports sections around.

"St. Louis is one of the great sports towns and I look forward to helping the Post-Dispatch cover those stories in an enterprising way across all mediums," Reid says.

As the No. 2 editor of the Globe section, Reid is responsible for its daily content, special projects, stories for 1A, planning and coordination of big events coverage and handling the department's travel budget.

Prior to joining the Globe in 2000, Reid was executive sports editor of the San Jose Mercury News, at a time when that newspaper was aggressively covering multiple professional sports and Division 1 college teams in the Bay Area.

Reid also has worked as deputy sports editor at the Houston Chronicle, Sunday sports editor and high school sports editor at The Dallas Morning News. In the late 1980s, he worked at The National Sports Daily -- that bold experiment that lured many of the nation's finest sports journalists – as assistant managing editor in charge of the copy desk and night operations.

Reid is a journalism graduate of the University of Texas in Austin. He and his wife, Brenda, have two sons: Rane graduates next month from the University of Texas; Austin is a junior in high school. Brenda is a public affairs assistant at Suffolk University.

We had many strong candidates for this position. Reid stood out because of his vision, experience and leadership in building strong sports sections and innovative online coverage. He is passionate about taking our sports coverage to the next level, and we know everyone on our team is ready and eager to join him in that effort.

Reid will join us in mid-May, and we know you will join us in giving him a warm welcome.

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