WTF? … a new editor at The Free Weekly?
Clipped Fresh — By Christopher Spencer on September 1, 2011 at 11:58 pmBye bye, Richard Davis and hello Blair Jackson, the new editor of the former Fayetteville Free Weekly, now branded The Free Weekly or TFW, if you please.
Davis was in the position for about a year, but was a veteran in the newspaper business.
According to Jackson’s welcoming WTF column it looks like this might be her first professional writer’s gig. It will be interesting to see what those fresh eyes bring to the table.
From her column:
The biggest WTF of my life was graduating from college into a recession. It took months to find my first post-graduate job as a shop girl in a furniture store in 2009. After two years of living in Northwest Florida, working as a retail manager, bartender and waitress, I announced to my friends that I was moving back home.
“WTF is in Arkansas?” They asked.
“Everything important to me,” was my answer, and to me, the cultural center of Arkansas is Fayetteville. I knew if there was a place where I could begin a career as a professional writer, cultivate a strong voice and be part of a progressive community, Fayetteville was the place.
Only time will tell what sort of energy she brings to the quasi-alt weekly run by the region’s newspaper conglomerate, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers.
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2 Comments
She did send a warm welcome to “all 23,000 UA freshmen”. So, I guess we’ll see.
Certainly an interesting choice. From the editor’s column we could deduce that factors for her hiring include:
* Youth
* She likes it here
* Gender?
Factors that conceivably did not play a role:
* Experience in media
Best of luck. Thought Richard did a great job. On the other hand, with a circulation of 7,000, it’s not like many of us will be watching.