Longtime editor becomes publisher of The Newsletter on Newsletters.Paul Swift, the editor of The Newsletter on Newsletters for the past 19 years, also assumes the title of publisher and takes over the management and day-to-day operations of the publication with this issue. James J. Marshall, one of the founding members of what is now called the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association, became publisher in March 1999, shortly after he sold his Virginia-based newsletter and specialized information firm, Government Information Services See Information Systems. , to Thompson Publishing Group Inc. Marshall took over The Newsletter on Newsletters from Howard Penn Hudson, its publisher for more than 30 years and perhaps the one person more responsible than any other for the founding of the Newsletter Publishers Association in 1976. Hudson is considered by many the guru guru (g  `r, g r` of
the newsletter business and has been designated the only Life/Founder
Member of NEPA. With the sale of NL/NL to Marshall, Hudson became
publisher emeritus e·mer·i·tus adj. Retired but retaining an honorary title corresponding to that held immediately before retirement: a professor emeritus. n. pl. . He is still publisher of Hudson's Subscription Newsletter Directory. "I'll continue to write articles for the publication as a senior correspondent and assist in various ways, but Paul has taken over as publisher and owner of The Newsletter on Newsletters," Marshall said. "I know that Paul will continue the tradition of editorial excellence that was started by Howard, and he will also maintain the newsletter as the only independent publication which covers the activities of the newsletter and specialized information industry in-depth and objectively. "Now that I'm 71," Marshall continued, "I really want to smell the roses. The newsletter business has been good to me but I want to get away from the day-to-day operation of even one newsletter." Swift has received awards for his editing in both the newsletter and the public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most industries. He has also edited or significantly contributed to a number of books in those fields as well as in health care. He got his first taste of newsletters in the early 1970s as assistant editor of USA 200: The American Bicentennial bi·cen·ten·ni·al adj. 1. Happening once every 200 years. 2. Lasting for 200 years. 3. Relating to a 200th anniversary. n. A 200th anniversary or its celebration. Also called bicentenary. Newsletter while completing his master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. from Boston College Boston College, main campus at Chestnut Hill, Mass.; coeducational; Jesuit; est. and opened 1863. Actually a university, the school's Chestnut Hill campus comprises colleges of arts and sciences and business administration, the graduate school, and schools of nursing . |
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