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Article Excerpt
After years of stability, the Belleville News-Democrat is undergoing changes--and rumors are flying. March 31 was the last day on the job for Greg Edwards, 51, editor since 1984, and Gary Berkley, publisher since 1987. Berkley, 60, who had been with the News-Democrat since 1978, announced his retirement in December. Edwards announced in February that he would quit. Parent company Knight Ridder announced Jan. 15 that advertising director Jay Tebbe would succeed Berkley.
Tebbe, 45, started with the News-Democrat in 1976 as a truck driver and worked his way up through the ranks.
The subject of most of the rumors is Edwards' quitting. Few people who spoke to S]R believe his decision was entirely voluntary. But Edwards did not respond to numerous phone calls for this story. He has no answering machine.
More than one anonymous source thought Edwards quit because he wasn't named publisher, others because of some kind of pressure from Knight Ridder which had owned the newspaper since 1997 and others because of a controversy over a political cartoon that some characterized as racist. Tebbe discounted all three.
"Greg thought it was time to pursue other things," Tebbe said.
Carl Green, now an editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who...
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