Happy birthday, Gina Falcone-Rupp
Here’s wishing the happiest of VizEds birthdays to Gina Falcone-Rupp, Vice-president and executive editor of McClatchy Interactive in Raleigh, N.C.
Gina was working in The News & Observer’s composing room and writing sports stories when I first met her in 1993. She started there in January; I was hired as a news artist in April.
About the time I left The N&O for Chicago, Gina became a sports editor for The N&O’s online division — which, at the time, was called Nando. Eight years later, Gina was promoted to a Senior Producer in McClatchy Interactive. She was named Vice-President and Executive Editor in 2005.
A pre-Rupp Gina Falcone makes up A1 for designer
Teresa Kriegsman in, oh, about 1994 or so. TK is now
The N&O’s design director.
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Gina shares a birthday with Sara Davidson of The Fredericksburg, Va., Free Lance-Star, Kyle Ellis of Ball State University, quarterback Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts, and actors Alyson Hannigan, Louie Anderson and Steve McQueen.
Plus, today is National Chocolate-Covered Raisins Day. Seriously.
Best wishes, Gina, for a happy birthday!
March 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Love the pic from the archives! I spent a few nights in composing, representing the copy desk and deploying my blue pen to cut stories.