Agfa-Gevaert appointed Marc Gedopt as chief financial and administration officer to succeed André Bergen.

Gedopt most recently was chief executive officer and chairman of the managing board of NIB Capital and NIB Capital Bank, a Dutch venture capital and asset management group.

The Graphic Systems Division of Fujifilm promoted Don Schroeder and Peter Vanderlaan to group managers. Schroeder will oversee all of Fujifilm’s color proofing products, including scanning and color management products.

Don Schroeder

Vanderlaan will take over as group manager of EI output products. He will manage the company’s electronic imaging products.

Alan Darling was appointed to executive vice president of Vio Inc. Darling will be responsible for the company’s sales and marketing.

X-Rite Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Richard E. Cook retired from the company in early March. Cook became the president and chief operating officer of X-Rite in June 1998 and became chief executive officer in 2000.

Enfocus Software has named David van Driessche chief executive officer, succeeding Peter Camps, who retired. Camps founded Enfocus in 1993.

PRESS

Heidelberger Druckmaschinen named Friedmar Nusch head of its corporate communications department. He will be responsible for working with international, business and trade press.

INDUSTRY

Richard T. Stenger of The News-Herald in Willoughby, Ohio, was selected as Journal Register Co.’s publisher of the year for 2002 at its recent publishers conference. Stenger began his newspaper career with The News-Herald after graduating from Ohio University in 1972 and has been publisher of the paper since 1999. Stenger worked his way up through various positions, including retail manager, classified manager, director of advertising, director of marketing and general manager.

Steven B. Falk was named president and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. He was formerly president, associate publisher and chief operating officer of the newspaper since November 2000. Falk succeeds John F. Oppedahl, publisher, chairman and chief executive officer of the Chronicle, who will depart the paper to pursue new opportunities.

Gary Randazzo, formerly the Chronicle’s vice chairman and associate publisher, has been named executive vice president and general manager. Phil Bronstein, formerly the Chronicle’s senior vice president and executive editor, was named executive vice president and editor of the paper.

Andy Furillo of the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee was awarded the 2002 Broun Award for his two-part series on the 30-year decline of a Sacramento neighborhood, Franklin Villa, from a flourishing community of tidy homes to blocks of crime-ridden, substandard housing. The $5,000 journalism prize is awarded annually by The Newspaper Guild-CWA.

A five-part series reported for the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal by Kevin Begos, Danielle Deaver and John Railey and submitted by state editor Scott Sexton was also honored by the Newspaper Guild-CWA. The piece, on the inner workings of North Carolina’s eugenics board and its forced sterilization of some 7,600 people, won acclaim by the judges.

Tribune Co. tapped Johann Vaz to oversee information technology at Sun-Sentinel Co., publisher of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Vaz will serve as vice president and director of technology and chief information officer for the daily.

Johann Vaz

Tribune also named Louis Sito vice president of Hispanic media. Sito, who is publisher of Tribune’s Hoy Spanish-language daily newspaper, will oversee the company’s Hispanic media initiatives.

David Hiller was appointed to senior vice president of publishing at Tribune Co. In this new position, he will be responsible for Tribune Classified Services, Tribune Media Services, The Hartford Courant and CLTV. He will also continue to oversee Tribune Interactive.

Tribune Publishing appointed Kenneth Hardingk veteran newspaper operations consultant and architect, as vice president of operations and distribution.

Harding will coordinate company-wide operations, printing and distribution activities and capital projects for Tribune’s 12 daily newspapers. Harding comes to Tribune from McClier Corp., where he served as executive vice president.

&127;he Newspaper Association of America’s Market Development and Promotion Federation presented its lifetime achievement award to Jim Rowley, vice president of market development at Tucson (Ariz.) Newspapers. The group also recognized Paul Fleishman, vice president of marketing for Newsday in Melville, N.Y., with its marketing master award.

DowJones Commodity News named John C. Hitchcock vice president of sales and marketing. Hitchcock will assume the new post in addition to his assignment as managing director for Latin America and energy for Dow Jones Newswires.

OBITUARIES

Charles S. Cusumano Sr. who founded Citiplate Inc. in 1953, passed away in late February at Calvary Hospital in New York City.

Cusumano was born in New York City in 1935. He was 17 years old when he established his business, which served the offset plate manufacturing needs of New York’s printing community.