STAR ANNOUNCES CHANGES IN ITS NEWS DEPARRMENT

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300400061-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: October 23, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

The Washington Evening Star
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S td,,% r A n n q u n c e s, C h a 51 g, e s.
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1. William Hill, managing edi-.
'tor of The Washington Star since
1962, has been nainA associate
editor of the newspaper in a,
re-organization of its news de-
partment.
Charles B. Seib succeeds Hill
in the managing editor's posi-
tion. For the past six years he
has been The Star's assistant
managing editor.
The changes, effective Nov.
10, were among six promp~otions
announced today by Newbold
Noyes, editor. Other shift's of as-
signment on the 116-year-old
newspaper were:
Sidney Epstein, city editor,
and Burt Hoffman, world editor,
to become assistant managing
editors.
Harry A. Bacas, editor of The
Star's rotogravure magazine
"Sunday," to become city edi-
tor.
Benjamin F. Forgey, an edito-
rial feature writer for the Sun-
day Star, to become editor of
"Sunday."
Hill, 60, will work with Noyes
on administration of The Star's
250-man editorial department.
He will be responsible for the
execution of special projects and
long-range plans for the im-
provement of the newspaper.
He is immediate past presi-
dent and a member of the execu-
tive committee of the Associated
Press Managing Editors Asso-
ciation. He has served as chair-
man and currently serves as
projects chairman of the News-
paper Comics Council. A mem-
ber of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, he was pro-
gram chairman of that organiza-
tion in 1965. He has appeared 27
times as a discussion leader at
the seminars of the American
Press Institute at Columbia Uni-
1930, and two years later, at the assistant city editor, he was
age of 24, became assistant city named city editor in 1958.
editor. He was made city editor Hoffman, 39, came to The Star
in 1937, thereafter serving as in 1958 via the Herkimer (N.Y.)
news editor, assistant managing Evening Telegram, the Elmira
editor and feature editor before (N.Y.) Advertiser and Congres-
succeeding the late Herbert F. sional Quarterly.. He was ap-
Corn as managing editor. pointed assistant national editor
Seib, 49; is a native of Kings- in 1962 and world news editor in
ton, N.Y., and a graduate of 1966.
Lehigh University. He came to Bacas, 45, began his newspa.
The Star in 1954, having -pre- per career as a Star copy boy
viously held reportorial and desk in 1951. Eight years later he
positions with the Allentown became assistant city editor and
(Pa.) Evening Chronicle, Asso- was named editor of "Sunday"
ciated Press, Philadelphia Rec- in 1962.
ord, International News Service Forgey, 30, was a reporter on
and Gannett News Service. the St. Lawrence Plain Dealer of
On The Star, Seib was succes- Canton, N.Y., before coming to
sively appointed Sunday editor The Star in 1964. He received his
in 1956, national news editor in present feature assignment two
1958 and assistant managing edi- years ago.
tor in 1962. He too is a member
of the APME.
Epstein, who is 48, broke in as
a copy boy on the Washington
Herald in 1937. He was city edi-
tor in 1954 when that newspaper
versity. was purchased by the Washing-
Hill . joined ? the Star staff in I ton Post. Joining The Star as an
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