Former Post-Dispatch managing editor, Pam Maples, becomes VP of editorial at Newsy.com
NEWS FROM NEWSY.COM: Pam Maples, former managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has been hired as the vice president of editorial at Newsy.com, an online and mobile video news source based in Columbia, Mo., and affiliated with the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, Jim Spencer, president of Newsy.com, said today.
“Pam is in charge of all editorial content and presentation at Newsy.com,” Spencer said in an interview. “She oversees the team that writes, produces and edits the content on our website.”
Spencer described Newsy.com as a news analyzer, not a news aggregator, which means it analyzes the key differences in how a story is being reported by various news organizations. It produces daily videos that describe these differences. Spencer said the “team” Maples will oversee includes three full-time workers, an editorial adviser, 10 part-time workers and students.
As part of an arrangement between Newsy.com and the Missouri journalism school, Maples also will teach a class on advanced global news, Spencer said. Students who take the class are guaranteed two work shifts a week at the news website, he added.
Maples, 51, will continue to live in Glendale with her husband and twin sons and will commute between St. Louis and Columbia.
Maples was managing editor of the Post-Dispatch for nearly three years until she resigned in August. She said at the time in a note to the staff: “Sometimes, it’s just time to do something new. I’m not sure what’s next, but I’m eager to explore some new ideas and avenues and it’s likely those will involve journalism in some form.”
Post-Dispatch Editor Arnie Robbins said at the time that he reluctantly accepted her resignation, and that she had elevated the level of journalism at the newspaper and its online site, STLtoday.com. He also noted that Maples had played a pivotal role in overseeing coverage surrounding the City Hall shootings in Kirkwood, which finished as a finalist in the 2009 Pulitzer Prize Breaking News Reporting category.
Prior to coming to the Post-Dispatch, Maples was assistant managing editor of investigations at The Dallas Morning News where she was a member of the reporting team that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. She is a graduate of the Missouri journalism school.
Spencer is a Kansas City native who has his master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. He was VP of Content and Answers at Ask Jeeves (Ask.com) before starting Newsy.com. His professional background also includes having been the general manager of News and Information Programming at AOL, and director of strategic partnerships at NBC for MSNBC.com.
Along with the announcement about Maples, Spencer said Newsy.com has hired Jim Flink, a weekend news anchor and reporter at KMBC-TV, Kansas City’s ABC affiliate, as editorial advisor to the site. Flink has been awarded a regional Emmy for spot news coverage and the newscast that he anchored won the National Edward R. Murrow Award. He, too, has his master’s degree from the University of Missouri j-school.
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deb…you should have at least one hit so here-hit-goes.
Pam mentioned that she passed Kiel Opera House and wondered about it..
on one of her first days in town..or on the job. What 2 years ago?
It may not be global news..but perhaps here class in Columbia could
learn a little about what makes downtowns, should she get some kind
of a grant and bring them in for Kiels’ opening. An example of
good, but late, public policy, good economics and good tourism
promtion.
Also..that’s it good to keep promises..even if someone else keeps them.
Yawn.
Me thinks there are a couple of bitter ex boyfriends wanting to bash her.
Bitter, party of 1.
That’s a big step down for Pam Maples. I wonder what she did wrong at the P-D.
This is great to read that Maples, a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, has racked up several awards for online and video news, including a regional Emmy, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
sorry, mr. spencer, you’ve hired a first-class loser. maples was a robotic rubber-stamp for her corporate bosses. she is one of the many lower-echelon editors who are destroying journalism in america. whatever your pathetic organization attempts to do, start playing taps now.