The Alabama Baptist Christian newspaper recently reorganized its editorial staff to include a managing editor, two assistant editors and a part-time copy editor, said Editor Bob Terry.
While the new structure has been evolving over the past few months with the current personnel, one new person was added to the staff following the reorganization.
Erin Webster, who grew up at First Baptist Church, Glencoe, near Gadsden, was hired as one of the two assistant editors.
Webster previously served as a staff photographer for the Natchez Demo-crat for 15 months. Her duties at the Mississippi paper included news and sporting event photo coverage and feature-story writing. She is a graduate of the University of Alabama (UA) where she obtained a bachelor of arts degree in 2000, majoring in journalism with a photojournalism emphasis.
While attending UA she worked as an assistant photographer for the university’s athletic department and served as the assistant graphics editor for the school newspaper, The Crimson White. She also was chief editorial assistant, photographer and writer for The Communicator, an alumni publication of the College of Communication and Information Sciences with UA. She also served as a part-time photographer for The Tuscaloosa News.
“We’re pleased to have Erin working with us at The Alabama Baptist,” said Terry. “Erin brings some impressive skills and experience to our editorial department and we’re looking forward to her contribution to the paper.”
“I’m very excited to be working at The Alabama Baptist,” Webster noted. “Having grown up in the Baptist church and being the granddaughter of a Southern Baptist preacher, I’ve heard about this paper all of my life, so this is a spiritual as well as physical homecoming for me.”
Sue Ann Miller’s title of news writer also was changed to assistant editor.
Both Miller and Webster will assist managing editor Jennifer Davis Rash in the daily and weekly duties that come with producing a newspaper. Their assignments include news reporting, feature writing, photography, layout and design.
Rash was named managing editor effective Jan. 1. Iva Jewel Tucker has served as copy editor for The Alabama Baptist for almost two years.
Two employees recently left the editorial staff of The Alabama Baptist. Greg Heyman, who served as senior news writer for two years, now serves as the press secretary to Alabama Secretary of State Jim Bennett. Kevin Criswell, who had served as designer for almost a year, now works as a production manager with Vertis Advertising.
(TAB)
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