AVIATION WEEK Group Announces Expanded Global Coverage And Editorial Staff Changes.

Business Editors

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2001

AVIATION WEEK today announced new editorial leadership positions and expanded editorial coverage of the global aerospace industry involving two of its publications.

Lee Ewing has been named editor-in-chief of AVIATION WEEK'S Aerospace Daily newsletter, succeeding Richard Tuttle, who will retire from full-time editorial duties on Jan. 31 after serving for seven years as editor-in-chief and 27 years as managing editor. Ewing joined Aerospace Daily from Tokyo, where he was editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the daily and Sunday newspaper for U.S. military people overseas. Earlier, he was an independent consultant on print and digital media for two years and worked at the Army Times Publishing for 27 years. His major positions there included corporate director of online content, editor of Air Force Times and editor of Army Times.

Tuttle was appointed to a new position, senior editor for defense and space for Aerospace Daily. Based in Colorado Springs, he will continue to write news stories, analyses and commentaries on a wide-ranging defense and space issues.

Brett Davis was appointed managing editor succeeding Frank Morring, Jr., who has been named senior space technology editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. Morring covered space and military affairs for Aerospace Daily for 12 years. Davis, who for 11 years reported on space and defense affairs as Washington correspondent for the Huntsville (AL) Times, will cover NASA.

Also moving to Aviation Week & Space Technology is John Croft, who becomes the magazine's new transport editor. Croft was associate editor for AVIATION WEEK'S Airports newsletter. The magazine also announced the promotion of Robert Wall from military editor to senior pentagon editor, and named Norma Autry and Nicole S. Jacobs editorial associates.

In expanding its editorial coverage, Aerospace Daily will add a staff reporter to cover aerospace technology exclusively. While all Aerospace Daily reporters cover technology as it relates to their specific beats, the new reporter will focus on advanced technology and new market opportunities.

Aerospace Daily also is broadening its international news coverage with the addition of new reporters in Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Their coverage will augment that provided by William Dennis, AVIATION WEEK'S Asia Pacific Bureau Chief in Kuala Lumpur, John Fricker in London and Dmitry Pieson in Moscow.

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With nearly 50 products and services and a core audience of some one million professionals and enthusiasts, the AVIATION WEEK division of The McGraw-Hill Companies is the world's premier multimedia information and service provider to the aviation and aerospace market. The cornerstone of the AVIATION WEEK portfolio is Aviation Week & Space Technology, the world's leading aviation and aerospace industry magazine, covering technology, business and operations in the commercial, military and space markets for more than 100,000 paid subscribers in 130 countries. www.AviationNow.com expands the company's extensive web presence by delivering the most comprehensive real-time news, professional information and e-business Internet portal in the global aviation/aerospace industry.

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