Tuesday, July 3, 2007
News Movie critic Gillespie jumps to legal paper
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Jul 3, 2007 at 9:46 PM
Longtime Atlanta Journal-Constitution film critic Eleanor Ringel Gillespie isn't retiring now that she's left her newspaper home of 28 years. Gillespie was one of more than 40 veteran AJC employers who accepted a buyout package and left the company last week.
But, starting in September, she'll write weekly movie reviews and feature stories for the Daily Report, a specialized newspaper serving the metro Atlanta legal community.
"We're still the same paper, with an emphasis on legal issues," says Daily Report Editor Ed Bean, who says he hopes to blend in more lifestyle coverage to appeal to his readership, which is mostly older and well-educated.
Bean says he called Gillespie as soon as he heard she was leaving the AJC because, after nearly three decades as Atlanta's best known movie critic, she has a strong local following that trusts her opinion.
"As a reader, I can say that the best critics have a voice and readers calibrate the reviews to that voice to determine whether they might like a certain movie," Bean says. "The reviewer's name does mean something to readers."
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