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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