Angie Clemmons

Angie Clemmons, sports copy chief at the Denver Post and a former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, is leaving the newspaper this week and plans "to rethink how I want to spend the next phase of my work life.

"I've decided to move to North Carolina, where my boyfriend is located," she told Journal-isms by email. "In fact, we are running off to NYC to get married next week! I will also be a part-time stepmom to three kids. He runs a few coffeehouses down there called Joe Van Gogh.

"And the newspaper business is just not improving, it's got me down. So much work and fewer people to do it. I need a fresh start to go about doing what I want to do, in an efficient and inspired manner.

"I'm going to try to rethink how I want to spend the next phase of my work life. I will probably start freelancing as a writer and copy editor; continue my work with NAHJ in that region and with the Sports Task Force as a volunteer, now that my Region 7 directorship is over; and also look into picking up some teaching in any journalism department that will have me in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. I feel strongly that after 22 years in the business, and with standards and practices getting a little loosey-goosey (in my opinion), that it's a responsibility of mine to reach out to the next generation of journalists.

"It's tough to leave my position as Sports Copy Chief. I think it's a position that I think I've brought a lot of valuable insight and experience to as a woman and as someone with a Latino background."

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