New ACS CEO Al Horvath on C&EN

In this week's C&EN, this comment from Al Horvath, the new CEO of ACS: 

...I fully support safeguards that ensure our journalists have the necessary independence to pursue the stories that are most important to our readers and to the chemical enterprise as a whole. We are guided in this endeavor by C&EN’s standards and practices, which clearly articulate the important elements for guaranteeing that my C&EN colleagues have the latitude to do their job in the manner they deem most effective. This principle is nonnegotiable.

To underscore this commitment, I made the decision to move C&EN to the ACS Publications Division. This change was made following consultation with a number of colleagues inside and outside the society, including C&EN staff members with deep experience in such matters. It quickly became clear that this organizational change would demonstrate that C&EN has the independence and leeway to cover the issues most important to the chemistry community.

Supporting the high-quality journalism that delivers these stories and producing a multifaceted publication like C&EN comes with a substantial price tag. ACS will continue to provide the financial resources that C&EN requires to achieve its mission....

I'm kind of amused the editorial makes it seem like it's always been in the Publications Division, when we all know that it was moved (disastrously, it turns out) to the Communications Division in 2021. 

(In all sincerity, it is good that Al Horvath is laying down a marker with some pretty unequivocal language. Here's hoping that it is good for the length of his term as CEO. We shall see...)