She was only female black sports editor in country

Story posted on Jan. 23, 2009

Patricia Mays

Patricia Mays, the lone female black sports editor in the country, has left the business.

Mays accepted a buyout offer from The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., late in 2008. The buyout offer was extended to all employees of A.H. Belo, which owns The P-E.

"She was a terrific word editor, a great mentor to our staff," said assistant managing Editor Dave Ammenheuser.

Mays joined the Press-Enterprise in 2005 as Deputy Sports Editor. She came to The P-E after an extensive career with The Associated Press, incluiding working in the New York City bureau.

She was promoted to Sports Editor in January 2007 when Ammenheuser was promoted to Assistant Managing Editor.

With her departure, Ammenheuser again takes over the day-to-day management of the print and Web sections.

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Other movements at The Press-Enterprise:

■ General assignment writer Jeff Eisenberg has been moved to the Lakers beat, where he replaces Broderick Turner who left us in September for the Los Angeles Times.

■ Prep writer Michael Becker has moved to the Angels beat, where he replaces Matt Hurst who left us in September to become the Assistant Sports Information Director at Cal Santa Barbara.

■ Staff writer Matt Calkins' regular Calkins Corner column has been moved from Page 2 to the Sports Day cover. Calkins also hosts our daily Web video shows.

■ Staff members Suzie Ahn and Mirjam Swanson are adding videography to their duties. They will shoot and edit video, including our daily Web broadcasts.

■ Prep writers Brandon Meachum and Gerald Tang departed in October.

■ Former San Bernardino Sun reporter John Murphy joined our staff as a prep writer.

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