Staff at the Record Observer confirmed this week that editor Janice Colvin and her staff writer Mary Neuberger have left the paper. Chesapeake Publishing appointed Angela Price as the new editor. Price will be heading up both the RO and the Bay Times, where she has been editor for the last nineteen years.
There was no statement available detailing the reasons for Colvin or Neuberger’s departure.
ACM/Chesapeake laid off a group of about 20 from several departments March 30, including the two from the Record Observer. Budgetary reduction was the reason given. Other long time weekly editors now gone include Kevin Hemstock of the Kent News in Chestertown and John Evans of the Times-Record in Denton. A sad day for community journalism.