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 Hey, some actual media news to replace the actual paucity of non-New Jersey shutdown news!
The 411: Daily News editorial page editor Frank Burgos is leaving the position to become managing editor of The Record in Bergen County. The Record’s a respectable paper, and especially since he’s moving to the ME position, it’s clearly a nice step up for the 10-year DN vet.
Clearly, though, the loss of Burgos will be a blow to the paper’s podcast, which we are behind on by only about 50 episodes — though we did notice that the show jumped posted a photo of a kitten the other day. (See photo attached to this post.) While at the paper, he did spearhead a series of editorials about Fairmount Park which was a finalist for a Pulitzer back in 2002, the same year the NYC newspapers dominated the Pulitzers with 9/11 coverage.
The full memo from DN editor Michael Days is after the jump.
Folks,
Frank Burgos is leaving us for an outstanding opportunity. He’s being named today the managing editor of The Record in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Frank came to the Daily News almost 10 years ago and has headed our editorial pages since 1998. In that time he has distinguished himself in a number of ways, including shepherding in 2002 a series of editorials on Fairmount Park that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Earlier in his tenure he was able to get more than 5,000 gun locks into the hands of our readers. In addition, under his leadership we became the first metropolitan newspaper in the country to launch a podcast, and now podcasting has become
an integral part of our online offerings.
Throughout his tenure here, he has been a proponent and enthusiastic steward for an editorial page that is provocative, interesting and a champion of the people.
Frank is at The Record today meeting his new staff, but should be back in the office tomorrow when we can all wish him the very best.
I hope to have a new editor of the editorial page in place shortly.
Mike
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