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October 3- 9, 2002

on media

Soundbites

by Deborah Bolling

Last week, the Inky lost two of its team players to the venerable Washington Post. Sports editor Tim Dwyer and news desk editor Karen Funfgeld will be taking up residence in D.C. sometime next month. “The Washington Post is such a great paper,” says Dwyer, 47, an Inky sports columnist for three years and sports editor for four. “When I got the offer, I just couldn’t pass it up.”

Dwyer, who has been at the Inky since 1982 in a variety of roles, says he'll resume writing again, working as a general assignment reporter on the Metro staff in Virginia. "I came to the Inky when Gene Roberts was still here and he asked me to go to the sports department for a year," Dwyer says, wryly. "It's been more than 10. I think my sentence is over."

Funfgeld says knowing the right people in the right places may have helped her land her new gig, which will be similar to the one she had at the Inky for the past seven years.

"A friend of mine let me know that there was an opening... and I decided to pursue it," she says. "This is the right job at the right paper at the right time in my life."

Editor Walker Lundy says he wishes them well.

"I'm sorry to see both of them go," he says. "They have been very valuable staffers, and I wish them well at the Post."

Still no word, however, on their replacements.

Daily News managing editor Ellen Foley won't be heading west after all. Although she says she interviewed for the vacant ME role with her former employer, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, last week the job was filled by an insider, Scott Gillespie.

Word is that if Foley had moved on, the favored replacement would've been DN deputy managing editor Michael Days -- who says that for the past few months, he's been interviewing for an ME's gig with Detroit Free Press. The paper hasn't made him an offer -- yet.

"I obviously have some interest in the job, because I went on the interview," Days says. "But I already have a job that I love. Besides, I'm in Philadelphia, I'm from Philadelphia and I'd like to stay in Philadelphia."

But wouldn't a promotion (and a raise) be nice?

"I've always believed that good things come to those who wait," Days says.

Nancy Stuski, who was a 19-year Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. staffer (PNI owns the Inky and the Daily News) and Inky advertising manager before she took a buyout in January 2001, is now the publisher of the Philadelphia Weekly, replacing Steven Guerrini, who took his final bow a few days ago.

Twenty-one months ago, Stuski was appointed vice president of advertising for TPI Metro, teaming up with publisher Jim McDonald, who had also been a former publisher of the PW.

In a press release issued Tuesday, Anthony A. Clifton, president of Review Publishing, which owns PW, wrote, "All of us at Review Publishing are fortunate to have Nancy Stuski join our senior management team. She has a long and distinguished career in the local print and advertising business and we are delighted to have her join us as we make plans for the company's future growth and success."

Over at Metro, Stuski's former boss, McDonald, says that although he's been looking for a replacement for his former ad director for months, business at Metro is better than ever.

"We're doing very well... and with change comes opportunity," McDonald says. "I like Nancy and have nothing bad to say about her."

Neither Guerrini nor Stuski, who has not worked out of the Metro offices since the end of July, could be reached for comment. (dbolling@citypaper.net)