It’s All Good   

Lebanon, New Hampshire’s Valley News has a new managing editor--Jeffrey Good, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer for the St. Petersburg Times.

Jeffrey Good, who left the St. Petersburg Times six years ago after winning the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, becomes managing editor at Lebanon, New Hampshire's Valley News. Good, 43, picked the St. Pete Times as his J-school two decades ago. He decided he wanted solid daily news experience after getting op-eds published in the New York Times and other papers not long after leaving college with an English degree. Good bugged Times editors until "they surrendered and put me in their most rural outpost." Twelve years later he won a Pulitzer for a series of editorials on Florida's probate system. But Good and his wife missed northern New England, where they'd met in college, and in 1996 he took a job at Gannett's Burlington Free Press. Two years ago he began reporting for the 18,000-circulation Valley News, owned by the family that owns the Concord Monitor. As ME he oversees 35 reporters, editors and photographers and writes a weekly editorial. Good likes the accountability of community journalism. "Especially in a place like this, where we are pretty much the only news source, people read the paper really closely," he says. "You get away with nothing."