Village Voice Media’s LA Weekly, one of SF Weekly’s bigger siblings, lost its editor last week when former LA Times hand Drex Heikes, who won a Pulitzer as editor of the Las Vegas Sun, announced he was moving on. And his replacement is . . . veteran VVMer Sarah Fenske, whose elevation is described this way by USC’s Neon Tommy website:
Last week, the owner of Village Voice Media Michael Lacey hired his former girlfriend Sarah Fenske to fill the recently vacated LA Weekly editor slot. When Fenske was a columnist at the Phoenix News Times more than two years ago, she maintained a romantic relationship with Lacey, Fenske told Neon Tommy Friday.
Despite their romance, Fenske, 34, said her close relationship with Lacey had nothing to do with her appointment as editor-in-chief of the Weekly.
