LEFT COAST BOUND: Sarah Fenske, who has been managing editor of The Riverfront Times for slightly more than a year, has been named editor of the Times' sister publication, LA Weekly.
Fenske, 34, will take over the new job on Monday. She is replacing Drex Heikes.
Fenske, a native of Cleveland, has been with Village Voice Media for 10 years. Before coming to St. Louis, she was a columnist for 5 1/2 years at the Phoenix New Times.
While there she distinguished herself with a 2010 series about corruption at the Maricopa County housing authority. She was awarded a Livingston Award for young journalists for the series, which was also a finalist for an IRE award.
So, the bad news is that Fenske is leaving. The good news is that Chad Garrison, a seven-year veteran of the RFT will replace her.
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"We'll miss Sarah," Garrison wrote in an email. "She leaves big shoes to fill. Or in Sarah's case, fashionable boots, heels and sandals."
Garrison, a Kirkwood product, joined the weekly in 2004 as a staff writer. In 2008 he became the RFT's first, full-time blogger at dailyrft.com. He's a Kirkwood high grad, class of '91.
