MediaWatch: January 1990
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Revolving Door: Mountain News to Hill News
Mountain News to Hill News. U.S. Representative Steny Hoyer, a liberal Democrat from Maryland, has hired Charles Seigel as his new Press Secretary. A reporter for Denver's Rocky Mountain News from 1980-83, Seigel previously held the same position in Delaware Lt. Governor S.B. Woo's unsuccessful 1988 Senate campaign and for the District of Columbia's Department of Human Services.
Fuller Fills Chicago Slot. James Squires, Editor of the Chicago Tribune since 1981, resigned suddenly in early December. His replacement as of January 1: Executive Editor Jack Fuller, a special assistant to Attorney General Edward Levi in 1975 and 1976. Fuller joined the Tribune as a reporter in 1973, moving a few blocks to the Tribune Washington bureau after leaving the Ford Administration. When bumped up to the Executive Editor slot in 1987, Fuller was Editor of the editorial page.
L.A.'s Progressive North. Mary Williams Walsh, Associate Editor of the far-left Progressive magazine from 1979 to 1982, began working in December as Toronto Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times. Walsh spent most of the 1980's reporting from Mexico and later Asia for The Wall Street Journal.
Into Africa. President Bush's choice of Ambassador to Kenya, Smith Hempstone, Editor-in-Chief of The Washington Times (1984-1985), has arrived in Nairobi. In the 1960's he served as a foreign correspondent in Africa for the old Chicago Daily News. Hempstone was a reporter, Associate Editor and Editor of the editorial page for the Washington Star between 1967 and 1975.
Updating Resumes at Year End. The Liberal Side. Deborah Leff, a Nightline Senior Producer, has moved to World News Tonight where she holds the same title. During Carter's last years Leff was Director of Public Affairs for the Federal Trade Commission.... Max McCarthy, a former Democratic Congressman from New York who has been Washington Bureau Chief of the Buffalo News since 1978 has relinquished his position. McCarthy now writes just a weekly column....Wally Chalmers, who worked in the Morris Udall and Ted Kennedy presidential campaigns, as CBS News Political Editor in 1984 and as Executive Director of the Democratic National Committee from 1986 until mid-1988, has created a new job for himself. He's half of Hilton/Chalmers, a new corporate communications firm.
On the Conservative Side. John Buckley, Communications Director for the National Republican Congressional Committee since the beginning of 1989, has left to become Vice President of Robinson, Lake, Lerer and Montgomery, a political lobbying firm. After the Jack Kemp campaign in which he worked wound down in 1988, Buckley put in a few months as a consultant to CBS News....Rob Rehg, a Washington reporter for Hearst Newspapers, including the Albany Times Union and recently defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has jumped to the offices of Congressman Bill Schuette. He's the Michigan Republican's Executive Director.
