Former Gov. Roy Schneider's public relations team has landed at the V.I. Daily News.
Hat Hatfield, a former reporter there, returned as soon as the new administration took over. His colleague, Janette Millin, joined him last week. He's back to writing stories and she's writing editorials.
Millin said her job at The Daily News is temporary. Her background is in broadcast media and "I intend to be moving on to Cable when they begin [local news] programming," she said.
Jeffrey Prosser, whose Innovative Communications Corp. owns the Daily News, also owns the two cable television companies in the Virgin Islands and has signaled his intention to begin local news programming.
So Millin's assignment at The Daily News looks like a stop-gap but for now she writes the daily editorial with "guidance from the [editorial] board."
Meanwhile, the woman who is editorial page editor, Gwendolyn Kelly, selects, edits and puts together the other items on the two editorial pages.
Hatfield, prior to his first stint at The Daily News, had been an aide in both the legislative and executive branches. He spent several years as a reporter at the paper but left to become Schneider's press secretary in early 1997, just before rumors began circulating that Prosser, Schneider's friend and political supporter, was buying the paper. The sale was finalized at the end of that year.