By Josh Barnett
Chair, APSE Regions Committee
Assistant Managing Editor, USA TODAY Sports
 
Tim Stephens was promoted from assistant managing editor, coordinating CBSSports.com's college coverage, to deputy managing editor. Stephens, the APSE 1st Vice President, joined CBS Interactive in July after a two-year stint as sports topics manager of both the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel.
 
 
"During our long courtship of Tim, I was excited about the prospects of an Editorial team with both Craig and Tim in it," CBSSports.com Managing Editor Mark Swanson said in a staff memo in late December announcing the promotion. "With that taken away from us, I simply shelved the prospects of a search for a new DME until 2013. Now there's no reason to begin that search when the right person for the job sits 20 feet away."
 
Stephens will be responsible for driving CBSSports.com's content vision and will manage all aspects of original content planning and production for the website. He will oversee writers, producers and editors and will work closely with internal and external partners, including sales, marketing, public relations, CBS Sports Broadcast, CBS Sports Network, CBS Sports Radio and other content partners.
 
CBS will move senior editor Tony Moss, most recently coordinating the web site's RapidReports bloggers and remote editing teams, to Stephens' former role supervising college sports.
 
"In the two years Tony has been with us, his work with RapidReports — and subsequently the aggregation teams — has been tremendous," Swanson wrote. "The talent level went up, the content continued to improve, he optimized the operation; he rolled with the changes, the additions and subtractions, convinced writers and editors to do the same. But he also demonstrated chops helping on the desk and became an invaluable copy editor, especially since Craig's passing. He has an incredible tool set to help the colleges team."
 
In other moves, CBSSports.com:
 
— Hired Adena Andrews, a member of the inaugural class of the APSE Diversity Fellowship Program, as a New York-based, behind-the-scenes writer, where she will report on CBS and CBS Sports Network coverage with emphasis on NFL and college sports programming. Before joining CBS, Andrews was a writer for espnW, a website fully dedicated to serving female athletes and fans. She also worked at ESPN the Magazine and NBA.com for three seasons before joining espnW. She has edited copy for Adidas, Nike Women and Nike Running. According to Black Enterprise.com she is one of the most influential sports professionals of color to follow on twitter (@adena_andrews) and Shape Magazine nominated her blog, adenaandrews.com, as one of the best for sports nuts.
 
“I plan on bringing my unique style of capturing the personalities behind some of our favorite games to CBS,” Andrews said. “Telling the story behind the story has always been my favorite part of being a journalist.”
She said her participation in APSE has played a big role in her development as a journalist. Fellows spend nine months in the mentoring program, which includes participation in APSE’s Sports Management Program, the Sports Journalism Institute, the annual summer conference, the professional development day for each Fellow’s region and helping judge the APSE contest at the winter conference.
 
“As an inaugural APSE Diversity Fellow, I’m extremely proud to represent the program and the organization,” Andrews said. “Being a diversity fellow was probably the best decision I’ve made in a long time. I’m looking forward to what it will bring me in the future.”
 
— Hired Marcus Nelson as a production editor with emphasis on college basketball and NASCAR. Before joining CBSSports.com Nelson owned and operated OwlAccess.com, a web site covering Florida Atlantic University athletics. Nelson built a large audience from scratch to become the most reliable and comprehensive media outlet covering FAU. Before founding OwlAccess.com in 2009, Nelson was the original FAU beat writer for The Palm Beach Post from 2001-08 where he also covered all facets of college athletics including assisting on coverage of Miami and Florida. His career also includes a stop as sports editor at the Boca Raton News and as a copy editor for Vegas Insider at Sportsline USA.
 
— Transferred Laura Nott from its Rapid Reports team, which she joined earlier this year, to its Remote Universal Editing Team. Nott was an editor at the Los Angeles Times from 1989-2009, where she served in roles including Executive News Editor, Copy Chief, News/Sports/Features Copy Editor, and Deputy Web Editor.
 

USA TODAY Sports changes

USA TODAY Sports has made a number of moves as it continues its growth and restructuring.
 
·         Steve Henson has been named senior editor for baseball. Henson was senior editor for MLB at Yahoo! from 2007 to 2011 before moving to senior general assignment editor and writer roles. Henson also spent 22 years at the Los Angeles Times in a variety of editing and writing positions. He received APSE writing awards in 2011 and 2010, and Yahoo! editorial awards in 2011 and 2009.
 
·         Heather Tucker has been promoted to senior editor for motor sports from deputy editor. In her seven years at USA TODAY Sports, she has previously worked as the cover story editor, helping plan coverage for live events (Super Bowl, Daytona 500, World Series) and directing enterprise work. She also has been a desk editor for major league baseball and motor sports, where she helped produce new products (Yankee Stadium commemorative, Derek Jeter’s 3,000th hit edition) and special sections for NASCAR’s season preview and the Chase for the Sprint Cup. She previously worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Roanoke Times and the (Charlottesville) Daily Progress. She is a graduate of the University of Richmond.
 
·         Jeff Gluck has been hired as motorsports writer. Gluck spent the last two years as the motorsports editor at SBNation.com and the three years previous as an associated editor at NASCAR Scene. He also has covered motorsports, high schools and other sports in stints at the Inland Valley Bulletin, San Bernardino Sun in California and the Rocky Mount (N.C.) Telegram.
 
·         Casey Moore has been added as a copy editor. He spent the last six months as a part-time sports copy editor at the Washington Post. Prior to that, he worked for five and a half years at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, where he was a sports copy editor before moving up to assistant sports editor.
 
·         Justin Abrotsky has been added as a digital producer based in Los Angeles. He previously was a homepage producer for the Los Angeles Times. A South Florida native, he also worked for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Gainesville Sun in similar capacities.
 
·         Mike Foss has been named social news editor. He joined USA TODAY Sports in 2010, where he was previously the senior social media editor and an online producer. Prior to working with USA TODAY Sports, he freelanced for ESPN and UPI while a studying at George Mason University.
 
·         Scott Gleeson was promoted from a digital producer to college sports producer. Gleeson has been with USA TODAY since 2010 when he interned with the sports department and stayed with the company after graduating from Illinois State University. At ISU he spent three years as sports editor and four years as a Division I basketball beat writer for the Daily Vidette—winning several ICPA awards and freelancing for the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Before his digital producing role, he spent time with the Washington Examiner as a editor/page designer and SLAM Magazine as a feature writer.
 
·         Jimmy Hascup has been hired as a digital producer. Hascup previously worked for the Washington Times and also interned at AOL Fanhouse while a student at American University.
 

NORTHEAST

Syracuse Media Group: Hired Hank Domin as sports managing producer as part of the new organization assembled following the decision to print three days per week. Domin most recently spent a brief period at the Connecticut Post as assistant managing editor after seven years at the Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union, also a Hearst newspaper. Domin had been the sports editor in Albany, but also spent 18 months as city editor. He also has worked as a sports copy editor at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y., and sports editor at the Press Enterprise in Bloomsburg, Pa.
 
Boston Globe: Baxter Holmes, a sports reporter at the Los Angeles Times who covers colleges, has been hired to help cover the Boston Celtics. Holmes was an intern at the Globe in the summer of 2008 before his senior year at the University of Oklahoma. He spent time on the national and sports desks during his 3 ½ years at the Times. He also had internships at the Salt Lake Tribune and the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S.D. He begins at the Globe in mid-January.
 

MID-ATLANTIC

Erie (Pa.) Times-News: Matt Martin has been named managing editor/digital. He had been managing editor/sports since October 2000. He also has been a news copy editor and outdoors writer at the Northwest Herald in Crystal Lake, Ill.; sports editor at the Oil City (Pa.) Derrick and Franklin (Pa.) News-Herald; and a sports writer and copy editor at the Meadville (Pa.) Tribune. Sports editor Jeff Kirik has been promoted to lead the sports staff at the Times-News. He has been with the newspaper since 1996, most recently overseeing high schools coverage in print and online and leading the night copy desk. He also has worked for the New Castle (Pa.) News.
 

WEST

Orange County Register: Gabriel Rizk has left the Glendale News-Press community edition of the Los Angeles Times for the Orange County Register. He has been a sports prep editor and reporter at the News-Press since 2006.
 
UT San Diego: Kevin Acee has been promoted from columnist to TV Sports Director. He'll lead sports programming for U-T TV and will work closely with all departments to enhance sports programming. To fill the void left by Kevin, Matt Calkins has been promoted to full-time columnist.He joined the U-T in August as an enterprise reporter after winning three first-place APSE awards last year while working at The Columbian in Vancouver, Wash.
 

NORTHWEST

The Observer, La Grande, Ore.:  Andrew Cutler as been named editor of The Observer, in La Grande, Ore., covering Union and Wallowa counties and northeast Oregon. He most recently served as the weekend news editor for the Rapid City (S.D.) Journal. He also served as sports editor at the paper for three years. Prior to that, he served as managing editor, news editor and sports editor of the Capital Journal in Pierre, S.D.

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