National News
Leslie Gornstein, business reporter, leaves the Associated Press. Until a replacement is hired, Gary Gentile, business reporter, assumes her coverage of biotechnology, global
trade, the video game industry, Internet companies, the aerospace industry and California's energy crisis. Email at ggentile@ap.org ... Howard
Packowitz and Mary Haffenberg join the Chicago Bureau of Dow Jones Newswires as reporters. Packowitz covers livestock futures and Haffenberg covers grains futures. Email howard.packowitz@dowjones.com, mary.haffenberg@dowjones.com ...
Business News
Odette Galli joins The Street.com as columnist. Her column, "The Real Deal," focuses on financial markets commentary, companies, financial trends and stocks. Email odette.galli@thestreet.com. Chris Edmonds, contributing editor, writes a weekly column entitled "Bottom of the Barrel," which appears
on Wednesdays. The column examines companies and stocks which may be good investment opportunities. Email cs_edmonds@email.msn.com.
Nelson Wang's title changes from personal finance editor to senior commentary editor. Lisa Meyer joins to replace him. She oversees all personal finance coverage for the
organization. Email Meyer at lisa.meyer@thestreet.com. Wang is no longer a PR contact ...
Healthcare
Elena Rover joins Health as articles editor. She covers women's health, fitness and nutritional topics. Fax at 212/522-9088.
Technology
David Diamond, executive editor of Red Herring, leaves. No replacement has been named. For more information, phone the pub at 415/865-2277 ... Lucas Mearian, reporter for
Computerworld, now also covers IT management issues for the News section. He is interested in announcements about executive changes, research reports and trend stories affecting
IT managers. Mearian continues to cover the financial services industry and storage issues. Email lucas_mearian@computerworld.com ... Larry Tuck, editor-in-chief, leaves CRM Magazine. Elliot Markowitz joins to replace him.
Email elliotm@ftmg.net ... Carl Weinschenk, news editor for InternetWeek, leaves. No replacement yet but Jeff Schwartz, news editor, assumes
his responsibilities for now. Email jschwart@cmp.com.
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