BMW’s “Joy” is Steve Parker’s slogan as well in announcing not a lane but a venue change –from hospital bed to office and computer. When drugs he had been taking to combat Crohn’s disease for 43 years suddenly started to fail, he went on a not too magical two-year mystery tour of diagnoses, hospital stays,… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Lane Changes
Lane Changes – April 2010
Jeff Sabatini is now Managing Editor at AOL Autos. The former car reviewer for The Wall Street Journal will be working primarily out of his Ann Arbor home and can be reached at Jeff.Sabatini@corp.aol.com. . . . Kevin Smith is parting ways with www.Edmunds.com. He can be contacted at 1701@gmail.com and promises to keep AWCom… Continue Reading
Lane Changes March 2010
To complete last month’s report of his departure from The Wall Street Journal, AWCom has been advised that John Stoll is now “a flak for Ford.” . . . Scott Sloan replaces Risa Brim-Richardson as auto industry contact for the Lexington Herald Leader. His Email is: ssloan@herald-leader.com . . . Steve Plum who writes for… Continue Reading
Lane Changes: February 2010
Dan Neil has moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina and from the Los Angeles Times to The Wall Street Journal where his car column will resume in the Spring. It is rumored, he will be seen on Fox News TV, presumably commenting on cars. . . . Doug Stokes left Gale Banks Engineering where… Continue Reading
Lane Changes: January 2010
New assignments and contact info for automotive industry pros.