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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/22/2008 1:25:48 PM
Title: Vickie Walton-James joins NPR
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
NPR and Chicago Tribune memos

Vickie Walton-James leaves Tribune Publishing for National Public Radio

From: Steven Drummond
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:40 PM
To: News-All Staff
Subject: [NPR] National Desk News


I’m delighted to announce that Vickie Walton-James is joining NPR as the
Supervising Editor for the Midwest and South. It’s a major gain for the
network and the National Desk that comes at the Chicago Tribune’s loss.

Vickie has worked there since 1989, and moved from Chicago to the
Washington bureau in 1995. For four years beginning in 2001 she was the
Tribune’s Washington Bureau Chief – managing the paper’s coverage of
some of the biggest news stories in decades. In 2005 she was promoted to
Senior Washington Editor, overseeing coverage across the Tribune’s nine
newspapers.

And in her new job she’ll jump right into some of the major news stories
in the U.S, directing our coverage across 24 states. The Midwest and
South region is a central point for the housing and foreclosure crisis,
the Southern drought, and the continuing rebuilding efforts in New
Orleans and along the Gulf Coast, and will of course play a big role in
the coming election.

Vickie will be working with a team that includes six NPR staff
reporters, scores of member stations, and two veteran editors: Ken
Barcus and Russell Lewis. Ken and Russell have done a superb job of
balancing essentially two jobs each – working with the NPR staffers and
with the member stations at a time when the coverage demands have been
extreme.

Vickie’s experience and vision and storytelling skills will only
strengthen the fine coverage we’ve had from this team and the region and
give them a strong advocate at NPR headquarters. She’ll start full time
on July 1.

Vickie will be at the National Desk Fly-In next week though, so please
say hello if you get a chance and give her a warm welcome.


Steve

Memo to Chicago Tribune employees

Kern, Gerould W. Sent: Thu 5/22/2008 7:31 AM
Subject: Vickie Walton-James leaving Tribune

Colleagues:

I’m sorry to report that our friend and colleague Vickie Walton-James is
leaving Tribune after nearly 20 years, a span during which she deftly
directed coverage from Washington of the some of the most important news
events in the nation’s history.

She is leaving to take on a new role with National Public Radio in
Washington, where she will direct coverage of the Midwest and South. Her
last day will be Friday, June 6.

Vickie has served as Senior Washington Editor since June 2005, a post in
which she helped orchestrate the work of staff representing nine Tribune
newspapers. She played a key leadership role on the team that unified
all of Tribune’s D.C. bureaus into the new Tribune Media Center in
December 2005.

She joined the Chicago Tribune in October 1989 as a copy editor on the
national and foreign desks. In 1995, Vickie moved to the Washington
bureau as deputy bureau chief. In September 2001, she was promoted to
bureau chief just a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and
immediately plunged into coverage of the aftermath and the unfolding war
on terror.

Vickie brought passion, dedication, exactitude and good humor to every
job she took on. I will miss her and I know you will, too. We wish her
the best in the future.

Gerry

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