Also, Gloria Penner reports that there’s a new job posted at KPBS for a Fronteras Reporter and it closes on July 22nd.   Here's the web page.

            Caron Golden, freelancer, social media voice, and blogger at SanDiegoFoodstuff.com, will soon be blogging weekly for San Diego Magazine, and this fall, the magazine will include her monthly column “Local Bounty.” Caron is lining up the fantastic restaurants for our October 19 “Excellence in Journalism Awards,” with quite a lineup already confirmed! 

            Tanya Mannes has been promoted to Senior Reporter at the San Diego Union Tribune, covering Small Business/Entrepreneurship (as of July 12). Her previous beat was the North Coast.

            Do you hear those wedding bells? They’re ringing for Doug Sherwin of the San Diego Daily Transcript, who will marry Julie Park on July 17 in Massachusetts. Congrats, Doug!

            Francine Phillips is the new Director of Communications for the Alzheimers Association. She will be heading up public policy and advocacy in addition to……communicating.

            Congrats to Point Loma writer Justin Halpern, a senior writer for Maxim magazine, for his enormous success with “S@#% My Dad Says.” As you probably know by now, within a few short months his funny “tweets” led to a book and a TV show, with William Shatner playing his father.

            Roger Conlee’s third historical novel, “The Hindenburg Letter,” won the action/thriller category at the San Diego Book & Writing Awards, the fourth largest competition of its kind in the country. Published by Pale Horse Books of Virginia, “The Hindenburg Letter” features a reporter for William Randolph Hearst who risks all sneaking into Nazi Germany in 1942.

            Last week, I accidentally gave Gloria Penner a promotion. Her correct title at KPBS is Senior Political Correspondent and Host, Editors Roundtable and San Diego Week.

            A sporty congrats to Wynston Sawyer, who was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles before  graduation day at Scripps Ranch High.  His mom, Jodi Sawyer, was a Product Manager for Jack in the Box, pregnant with Wynston, when I worked down the hall from her as spokesperson for “Foodmaker.”

            Did you know that San Diego is America’s #1 solar city? Our own solar marketing star, Mary Beth McCabe, spoke at the National Solar Conference about “Marketing Your Solar Business.” Check her out at sunmarketingsolar.com. A former broadcaster, McCabe holds a Ph.D., teaches at several universities, is a doting mother of four, blogs as Dr. Mary Travelbest, and is also an expert in Hispanic Marketing.

            On July 17, the San Diego Space Society will air “Moon Beat” (free!) at 7 p.m. at the Space Travelers Emporium, 1947 30^th St.  The 88-minute documentary turns the cameras on the journalists who covered the first manned landings on the moon.

            The San Diego Union Tribune is physically shrinking in size – to 44” wide pages soon.

            Enlace is introducing Enlace Extra, a weekly publication listing San Diego entertainment and events, to be distributed to 100,000 upscale households in Tijuana.

            National Geographic Adventure magazine’s “Adventurer of the Year” Albert Lin, a UC San Diego researcher and alumnus, is mounting his second expedition to Mongolia in search of the tomb of Genghis Khan. Yes, your life is boring. His isn’t.

            Congratulations to David Doyle, a partner with Morrison & Foerster, for being the only San Diegan featured in National Law Journal’s annual “WINNINGS” feature. Eleven litigators were profiled because of their talent in the courtroom.

            Former KUSI and KFMB anchorman Stan Miller is “home.” He told me a couple of years ago how much his family wanted to return to Oklahoma. He’s now the news anchor at the CBS news affiliate in Oklahoma City.

Going anywhere interesting this summer?