Voice Names New Editor
by Anne Mooney / March 7, 2023
We are pleased to announce the Winter Park Voice has named Beth Kassab as its new editor, effective immediately. I will still be affiliated with the Voice, but in a much less active, visible role.
Beth has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years. She served in various capacities at the Orlando Sentinel, both as an investigative reporter and as a popular columnist. She is no stranger to Winter Park, having covered it off and on for the Sentinel.
Beth expressed gratitude for the opportunity to build on the work we have done here for the past 10 years and to take the Voice to the next level. With Beth at the helm, the Voice is poised to continue delivering quality news and information to our readers while upholding the values of journalistic integrity and community engagement that has established the Voice as a trusted source of information.
I am truly grateful for all the support and collaboration I have enjoyed over my years as Voice editor. Winter Park is a unique and wonderful community, and I am proud to be part of it. This transition in leadership is a milestone for the Voice and the community it serves. I am grateful to Beth for accepting the torch and am excited to see where she will take the Voice, with renewed energy and commitment to journalistic excellence.
Good luck, Beth! Winter Park, you’re lucky to have her.
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By: Anne Mooney
Anne Mooney has assumed the editorship of the Winter Park Voice from founding editor Tom Childers.
Mooney got her start in New York as a freelance line editor for book publishers, among them Simon & Schuster and the Clarkson Potter division of Crown Books. From New York, she and her husband and their year-old toddler moved to Washington, D.C., where the two ran a newswire service for Harper’s magazine. “We called it Network News,” said Mooney, “because it was a network of the Harper’s writers, whose work we edited into newspaper style and format and sold to papers in the top U.S. and Canadian markets. We were sort of like a tiny UPI.”
The newswire ceased operation with the death of Mooney’s first husband, but Mooney continued to write and edit, doing freelance work for Williams Sonoma cookbooks and for local publications in D.C.
In 2005, Mooney moved to Winter Park, where she worked as a personal chef and wrote a regular food column for a south Florida magazine. She took an active interest in Winter Park politics and was there when the Winter Park Voice was founded. She wrote occasional pieces for the Voice, including the Childers bio that this piece replaces.
The Winter Park Voice is one of a large number of “hyper-local” publications that have sprung up across the U.S. in response to the decline of the major daily newspapers and the resulting deficit of local news coverage. The Voice’sbeat is Winter Park City Hall, and its purpose is to help the residents of our city better understand the political forces that shape our daily lives.
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This news made my day. Beth is a perfect fit and Winter Park will be well served…
Wonderful news for Beth and Winter Park!
Awesome news! Glad to hear WPV has a long life ahead!
Congratulations to YOU AND to BETH! She’s already making an impact and it’s nice to see that you are both protecting the future of our community newspaper!
Ann, you will be missed and thank you for your years of service, covering news in the city of Winter Park that otherwise would not have been shared. Enjoy your semi retirement.
Congratulations Beth and Welcome to the WP Voice.
Mary Daniels
Congratulations to both of you!
Wonderful News! Thank you Anne for your dedication to The Voice and to the residents of Winter Park all these years! Sincere Congratulations to Beth Kassab for generously accepting this position as bearer of the torch for Winter Park!
Yes, congratulations Beth! Anne, we can never thank you enough for providing this highly informative resource to our community. You have given the residents of Winter Park the invaluable service of reliable information regarding our city government. Many many thanks for your time, dedication, knowledge, and professionalism.
Wonderful News!
Thank you Anne Mooney for your tireless dedication and commitment to keeping the residents of Winter Park informed all these years through The Winter Park Voice! Congratulations Beth Kassab for graciously accepting the passing of the torch to become the new Editor of The Winter Park Voice!
Thank you, Ann for your many wise years. Beth will be excellent! I hope to see more of you.
Sandra Blossey
Anne, thanks for the many years of devotion and service that you have given to Winter Park Voice by printing factual information. You made a fantastic choice in selecting Beth Kassab. Congratulations to both of you!
Have some fun and enjoy your granddaughter.
Anne, we’ll miss having you “front and center” but Beth Kassab is a wonderful choice!
Congrats Anne on your years dedicated to Winter Park, and now for ensuring the torch is borne forth, so very capably by Beth Kassab.
‘mike’
Congratulations to Beth! A wonderful choice!