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St. Pete Shake-up: The St. Petersburg Times names Paul Tash , its 38-year-old Washington bureau chief, as executive editor. He replaces Mike Foley , now director of community relations. Foley says he left the newsroom after 22 years as a reporter and editor at the request of CEO and Editor Andrew Barnes . "He asks you to do something and you think it over and say yes," says Foley, who had been executive editor of the paper since February 1991. Barnes says that although Foley "has gone through cycles of being irrationally despised," he's the best person for the public relations spot because "someone who speaks in my name and spends time talking to chambers of commerce, auto dealers, neighborhood associations and on and on..has to be someone who knows you intimately." Asked how Foley, who's highly regarded as an editor but hasn't built a reputation in diplomacy, was convinced to handle P.R., Barnes says, "I can be persuasive." Meanwhile, Eileen Shanahan , co-founder and former executive editor of Governing magazine, succeeds Tash in Washington.

At the Times: The New York Times names R.W. "Johnny" Apple as Washington bureau chief, succeeding Howell Raines, who becomes editorial page editor on January 1. Apple, a revered political writer at the paper who has reported from some 100 countries, continues as chief Washington correspondent. Reporter Andrew Rosenthal assumes Raines' title of Washington editor, now the No. 2 spot.

Mobile Movements: The Mobile Press Register in Alabama hires Sam Hodges as one of its two Washington correspondents. Hodges' well-received comic novel about life at a Birmingham newspaper was published last summer by St. Martin's Press. The protagonist of his book, entitled "B-Four" because Hodges says "that's as close to the front page as my young, struggling hero seems to get," is sent to work as a reporter by his banker father because he thinks it will improve his son's S.A.T. scores. Most recently at the Orlando Sentinel, Hodges came to D.C. with his wife, former Sentinel education reporter Kit Lively , who landed a job at the Chronicle of Higher Education. In Mobile, the Press Register names Stan Tiner , who left as editor of the now-defunct Shreveport Journal in 1987 and later ran unsuccessfully for Congress, as editor and vice president for news; John Cameron , most recently editor of the Selma Times Journal, as assistant managing editor; and Bailey Thomson , formerly chief editorial writer at the Orlando Sentinel, as business editor.

Seaboard Spirit: The Boston Herald claims that Globe Executive Editor Matthew Storin , who told WJR last summer that he had long ago tamed his infamous temper ("Bylines," July/August), had a relapse in September. A Herald photographer went to the emergency room with neck bruises, according to Herald Editor Ken Chandler , after he suckered Storin into posing with a Herald "Wingo" game card for an ongoing series of celebrity endorsements. Storin declined to discuss the incident beyond saying, "There is no way that I hurt the guy." Chandler notes that "seven or eight years ago, when I was at the New York Post, we did the same thing to Jim Hoge [then publisher of the Daily News]. He accepted it with much better grace."

Louisville Landings: The Courier-Journal hires Rochelle Riley , formerly at the Dallas Morning News, as deputy managing editor and promotes Sandra Duerr , business editor since 1986, to assistant managing editor. Assistant Metro Editor Glenn Proctor succeeds Duerr. The paper also names Hunt Helm , acting metro editor since the departure of R.G. Dunlop to the special projects teamsix months ago, to the permanent position. "Throughout his career," Managing Editor Stephen Ford wrote in a memo to staff, "Hunt has had a tendency to transform engaging dialogues about basketball into irritating monologues, especially when delivering an anti-UK [University of Kentucky] tirade to the editor." Helm has been a Louisville fan since childhood; Editor David Hawpe favors Kentucky.

News South: The Houston Chronicle names Kit Frieden , formerly chief copy editor of the Dallas Morning News' Sunday magazine, as its state editor. She succeeds Fred Blevens , now teaching at the University of Missouri... Bob Bryan , formerly editor of the Battle Creek Enquirer in Michigan, becomes managing editor of the Times in Shreveport, Louisiana. He succeeds Jim Montgomery , now editor of the Shreveport Journal's editorial page, which appears in the Times as part of an agreement that closed the Journal last year... Paul Delaney , formerly a senior editor at the New York Times, becomes chairman of the University of Alabama's Department of Journalism. A native of Montgomery, Delaney had been at the Times since 1969.

The Rest of the World: John Brecher , formerly a senior special writer at the Wall Street Journal, succeeds James Stewart as editor of the paper's front page. Stewart leaves November 16 to write a book... Robert White , editorial page editor of the Star Tribune in Minneapolis since 1982, plans to step down next month. He'll remain at the paper writing a twice-weekly column. White was a former Navy officer running a mortgage banking company in 1967 when Robert Smith , the paper's editorial page editor and later publisher, discovered they shared an interest in foreign affairs and hired him to write editorials... The Chicago Tribune names business reporter Patricia Widder as its media writer. She succeeds James Warren , now editor of the features section.... David Ignatius , formerly foreign editor at the Washington Post, becomes assistant managing editor for business. He succeeds Peter Behr , now a senior business reporter.

Defections: Czechoslovakia's year-old English language weekly, the Prague Post, names Martin Huckerby as its new editor. He had been foreign news editor of the London Observer. Tim Brown , formerly art director for Minnesota Monthly, also moves to Prague to redesign the 14,000-circulation weekly, and Jon Newberry , a former reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, succeeds Mark Baker as business editor. Baker now freelances... Arthur Kent , the "Scud Stud" who parted ways with NBC last summer after he refused an assignment in war-torn Croatia because of a contract dispute, now reports from Eastern Europe for the BBC, the London Observer and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

Brown Paper Wrapper: The debut of Tina Brown 's New Yorker hit newsstands in late September with heavier paper, photographs, color illustrations, more fragrant perfume ads and timelier articles (it is a weekly , after all) – the first issue in a long while that most readers likely jumped into and finished before the next one arrived. WJR's copy- cum -event arrived hand-delivered in an embossed cardboard sleeve secured with a leather string and protected by a curtain of expensive lace tissue.

News Services: The Associated Press appoints Darrell Christian , sports editor since 1985, as managing editor. He succeeds Martin Thompson , now the wire's first director of state news. Among other duties, Christian coordinated the 1988 and 1992 Olympic coverage; Thompson was the bureau chief in Los Angeles and San Francisco for a total of 14 years before being named managing editor in 1989. The wire service also adds Charles Hanley and Linda Deutsch to its select circle of special correspondents. Hanley, who had reported for the foreign desk for a decade before becoming an editor in 1987, returns to writing about foreign affairs. Deutsch continues to cover high-profile trials, as she's done for the past 25 years... Copley News Service names financial writer S. Lynne Walker of the Copley-owned San Diego Union-Tribune as chief of its Mexico City bureau. Walker, who spent three months in Saudi Arabia covering the Persian Gulf War, succeeds Nancy Cleeland , who returns to the Union-Tribune.

Centers of Attention: Don Campbell , director of the Washington Journalism Center since 1989, joins the Chicago Sun-Times as executive director of its features syndicate. His wife, Julia Wallace , profiled here last month, was hired recently as the Sun-Times' managing editor. Martin Casey , a former Washington correspondent for the Dallas Morning News, succeeds Campbell at the nonprofit center, which works to educate journalists on public policy issues... Bryna Brennan , currently director of the Central American Journalism Project in Panama and an 11-year veteran of the AP, joins the Center for Foreign Journalists as its director of training. She succeeds Tewfik Mishlawi , who returns to his native Lebanon after seven years at the job. Based near Washington, D.C., the center trains journalists from developing countries and Eastern and Central Europe.

Local TV Feeds: KYW in Philadelphia names entertainment reporter Trudy Haynes as its first "senior beat" reporter. Her twice-weekly reports are aimed at older viewers. Haynes, who joined KYW in 1965, says "as far as I'm concerned, life begins at 50.".. Robert Sullivan , formerly news director at WTLV in Jacksonville, Florida, joins KPNX in Phoenix in the same position. Sullivan may be among the few television news directors who aren't gunning to knock off their market's No. 1 newscast, in this case aired by dominant KTVK. "My goal in the first year or two is to make ourselves a strong No. 2 and position ourselves for a run."

Preparing for the Wolves: Bill Sheehan , president of ABC News from 1973 to 1977, joins the Executive Television Workshop as an instructor. For the past 15 years, the New York-based firm has taught corporate and government executives how to put their best foot forward during interviews, press conferences and other public appearances. Directed by Walter Pfister , a one-time executive vice president at ABC News, the firm's associates include several other past news executives from ABC and NBC as well as former reporters and producers. Previously, Sheehan had been a P.R. official at Ford Motor Co. and NASA.