AJR  The Beat
From AJR,   January/February 2002

Time to Relax   

Scott McGehee, publisher of Fort Wayne, Indiana's News-Sentinel and CEO of Fort Wayne Newspapers, retires after 35 years in newspapering.

By Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.     


Scott McGehee ends a 35-year career in newspapers, retiring as publisher of Fort Wayne, Indiana's News-Sentinel and CEO of Fort Wayne Newspapers, the Knight Ridder paper's joint operating agency with the Journal Gazette. McGehee, 58, says her "immediate goal is to have no schedule." A former managing editor, associate editor and lifestyle editor during 11 years at the Detroit Free Press, McGehee was vice president and general manager at Lexington, Kentucky's Herald-Leader before going to Fort Wayne in 1992. McGehee's successor, Mary Jacobus, 44, was most recently publisher of the Duluth News Tribune.

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