Homeward Bound.(Brief Article)

American Journalism Review,  January, 2001  by BASHEDA, VALARIE; ROBERTSON, LORI

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She didn't do it for the baseball, but watching her hometown team again is on the to-do list of Ellen Soeteber, who leaves as managing editor of South Florida's Sun-Sentinel to become the new editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "This is not only the paper that I grew up reading, it's the paper that inspired me to be a journalist," says Soeteber, 50, a native of East St.

Louis. Soeteber, called a 'journalist's journalist" by Sun-Sentinel Executive News Editor Jeff Glick, is credited with improving that paper's local news coverage. The position in St. Louis had been ...

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