Pulitzer package editor takes job at free weekly with sex ads in the back

But not one of our free weeklies with sex ads in the back.

LAWeekly announced that it has hired a new editor, Las Vegas Sun Deputy Managing Editor Drex Heikes.

Its Pulitzer punctuated the distance that the Sun has put between itself and its wrapper, quality wise, over the last few years. Heikes was the editor on the Pulitzer stories and by all accounts has had a whole lot to do with the Sun's overall progress.

Heikes once e-mailed to complain because your lowly Gleaner had suggested that the Sun's improvements were despite the influence of upper-level poohbahs Brian Greenspun and Mike Kelley, not because of them. Unfair, Heikes objected.

Now maybe we'll find out.

Comments

[atdleft]

LA Weekly's quite lucky to have him. Hopefully, Heikes can breathe some new life into LA Weekly like he has for The Sun. It's really gone downhill in recent years (especially since the VVM buyout) and in need of a shakeup.

[Michael Green]

Marc Cooper has written extensively about the problems at the Weekly. His blog, marccooper.com, may still have some of his stuff.

[Dan]

Sounds about right- from a rag of a newspaper to another rag..