H-S: Meet the new boss

While the Indy's Triangulator blog has been quiet over the holidays, it piped back up on Monday with a number of interesting stories, including the announcement of a little change in the newsroom for Durham's Herald-Sun.

As of today, Offen is the new metro editor of the Durham Herald-Sun. Offen, who lives in Carrboro, has worked at The Chapel Hill Herald, the Durham daily’s Orange County counterpart, for more than eight years and has been its editor for more than six. Now former H-S metro editor Dan Way has moved into Offen’s old position in Chapel Hill.

Offen lamented the move in an email to Chapel Hill contacts on Dec. 30.

“It’s not a position I necessarily asked for or wanted; it was thrust upon me,” he wrote.

The Indy's Fiona Morgan quotes sources at the H-S as saying that Way was not well-liked by reporters -- a statement that wouldn't be shocking given the ratcheting up of workloads that's taken place there in the past six months, though whether that trend started at Way's desk or not is another matter.

Onetime H-S courts reporter John Stevenson appears to pipe up in the comments and add that any dislike to Way isn't universal; Stevenson notes that he got along fine with Way, who arrived at the paper in the wake of the Paxton buy-out of the Herald-Sun in 2005.

Though the commenter is less effusive in expressing feelings for Paxton itself: "As for my opinion of Paxton Media Group as a corporate entity, I will reserve comment."