Daytona’s Denise Covert to return to Florida Today
Denise Covert e-mails today:
OK, just put my notice in. I’m leaving the Daytona Beach News-Journal, where I’m a copy editor and page designer in Regionals, to work on the night delivery desk at FLORIDA TODAY in Melbourne, Fla.
I started my full-time journalism career at FLORIDA TODAY in May 2001, after I interned at the Miami Herald and graduated from the University of Miami, where I majored in print journalism and music (voice). My parents own a house there and split their time between Florida and New Jersey, and I met my husband, got married and gave birth to our daughter there. I stayed there until November 2004, when I went to Stuart, Fla., for a year to design 1A for the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers group, and bum around on the beach a lot.
We came up to Daytona a year later, where I started on the night desk and then hit the jackpot and made it to days. We love Daytona and the laid-back lifestyle — we’re also the proud owners of a 1967 Triumph chopper — but an opportunity came to go back to Melbourne, where my parents plan on retiring in the fall and my husband has always considered home.
My last day in Daytona is sometime around June 20, with my first day in Melbourne on June 23. I’m really looking forward to working with some very talented people again, and making my mark in a great town.
Denise
P.S. Charles, Doug insisted I let him announce this, has something to do with his holding my husband’s wallet hostage, but I copied you anyway because I know you like to be the first to know this stuff. :-)
Ah, Doug can suck an egg. He’s an editor now. He’s got more important things to do than to try to talk folks out of giving me job change notices. Just in case, though, you can find his blog here.
Things have been awfully goofy at the News-Journal lately. The family that owns the paper lost a major lawsuit to the minoriy owners, Cox Enterprises, and the paper is up for sale.
Congratulations on the new gig, Denise. Best wishes in Melbourne!
May 27th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
(laughing) Yeah, like Denise would have ever been complicit with a scoop of Sir Apple!
Congratulations, Denise. And no, I still haven’t driven across the bay to get that forsaken item… I didn’t forget.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Yes, best wishes in Melbourne, Denise! And I think the score is now Charles: 47323, Doug: 0.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
The night delivery desk? Well, I guess we know who’ll be in charge of the pizza on election night.
Heh. Congrats on the move, Denise.
May 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Welcome back to Gannett Denise. You got the East Coast, I’ll keep tabs on the West.