leave. When Gannett purchased the Louisville newspapers in 1987, Gannett transferred Janensch to its headquarters staff. While there, he established an advanced training program for the Gannett Foundation (now The Freedom Forum) to help Washington-based reporters from regional newspapers develop stories for the papers that employed them. He then was sent to Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, New York, and served as a vice president and editor and general manager of The Journal News of Rockland (New York). In 1992, he left Gannett to become top editor of the Worcester (Massachusetts) Telegram and Gazette, then owned by the San Francisco Chronicle. At all three newspaper companies, he was known for recruiting and promoting women and minority news professionals. After leaving Worcester, Janensch became a consultant to Russian newspapers in 1994-95 under a USAID grant program administered by New York University. Janensch advised on steps to transform former government-owned and subsidized newspapers into profitable businesses and also on the importance of editors forming associations to share best practices and defend against pressures from outside forces. Radio journalism career Beginning in 1997, Janensch expanded his work to radio broadcasting. His weekly media commentaries continue to be broadcast by WQUN AM 1220, Quinnipiac University's commercial radio station, serving Hamden, New Haven and other Connecticut communities. One 2010 commentary took a more light-hearted approach than his normally serious analyses when he focused on a professional Barbie doll released just before Christmas called "News Anchor Barbie." For 10 years, his commentaries on the news media were aired by the five stations of WNPR Connecticut Public Radio. Janensch's commentaries for WNPR and the newspapers often were picked up by other platforms, including the Poynter Institute's James Romenesko and the journalism.org site of the Project for Excellence in Journalism. In 2010 Janensch's weekly "Treasure Coast Essays" began on NPR-affiliated station WQCS, serving Florida communities of Vero Beach and Fort Pierce. He also is heard occasionally on Albany, NY public radio FM station WMAC's ongoing feature called "The Academic Minute." His occasional guest commentaries are aired by WSHU-FM in Fairfield, Connecticut. Playwright Janensch co-wrote Dear Eva, a nonfiction play based on World War II letters saved by Eva Lee Brown of Easley, South Carolina, and discovered 50 years later by her daughter, Catherine Ladnier of Greenwich, Connecticut, who invited Janensch to be her collaborator. Love in a Time of War, a spinoff consisting of the love letters