ONA Executive Director Lori Schwab's career aspirations are taking her in a new direction and she has left ONA. During her time with ONA, the organization's membership and conference attendance grew to record numbers. We thank her for her nearly two years of service and wish her every success.

As we begin a search for a new Executive Director, we are thrilled that Tom Regan has agreed to serve as Acting Executive Director.

Many of you know Tom from his time as Executive Director of ONA from 2004 to 2006. He is a long-time practitioner of online journalism, starting in 1992 when he put his daily column on a listserv and asked his readers to comment. He put the first newspaper on the web in Canada in 1994 (The Halifax Daily News), and helped design and run the website of The Christian Science Monitor in 1996. Tom has also been a Nieman
Fellow at Harvard University, the Terrorism and Security blogger at the Christian Science Monitor and, for the past year, the news/politics blogger for NPR.org.

Please welcome Tom back. He can be reached at director@journalists.org or 646-290-7900.

We will soon be launching a search for a new Executive Director. If you know of anyone who might be interested or a strong candidate, do let us know.

This is an exciting time for ONA, as we continue to grow as an organization. We have a number of exciting initiatives in the works, including an amazing 2008 conference, so stay tuned!

And, as always, we're looking for volunteers with great ideas, so if you're interested in helping out in any way or have ideas you'd like to see ONA pursue, please let Tom or I know.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Dube
President, Online News Association
jdube@journalists.org