New ASNE leader moves from alt-weeklies group

By Robin J Phillips on Oct 26, 2009 in Jobs

Richard Karpel

Richard Karpel has been selected as the next executive director of the American Society of News Editors.

Karpel, 50, has been in association management for more than 20 years, since 1995 as executive director of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. Karpel will join ASNE on Dec. 1 and assume responsibilities of the executive director in January, succeeding Scott Bosley, who has served nearly eleven years in the position and announced his retirement earlier this year.

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