PREPRESS
Brainworks Software has named Dick Kitzmiller and
Paul Lampasona business development managers.
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Paul Lampasona |
Mactive Inc. made the following announcements. New staffers Bob Sullivan, Bran
Varnell, David Almeida, Ken Hodges and Andy Lazarus joined the professional
services department. Linda Nilsson was promoted to director of professional
services for Mactive Nordic in Sweden. Kim Mallory was promoted to director of
professional services. Aubrey Arredondo was named project manager. Lin Edwards
was promoted to customer support manager.
Ridder
named new chairman of Newspaper Association of America
P. Anthony “Tony” Ridder, chairman and chief executive officer of
Knight Ridder Inc. in San Jose, Calif., was elected chairman of the
Newspaper Association of America at its annual meeting.
Ridder succeeds William Dean Singleton,
vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group Inc.,
Denver, who will continue to serve on the board as immediate past
chairman.
Ridder was named chairman and CEO of
Knight Ridder in 1995. He has served as president since 1989. Ridder
joined the Knight Ridder corporate staff as president of the newspaper
division in 1986.
Other officers elected were Vice Chairman
Gregg K. Jones, co-publisher of the Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun; Secretary
Jay R. Smith, president of Cox Newspapers Inc., Atlanta; and Treasurer
Boisfeuillet Jones Jr., publisher and CEO, The Washington Post.
Newly elected to two-year terms on the
NAA board of directors were Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher, Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, Wehco Media, Little Rock; Robert M. Nutting, president
and CEO, Ogden Newspapers, Wheeling, (W.Va.); Paul Tash, editor and
president, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times; and Kathleen M. Waltz, president
and publisher, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel. |
Lastra unit Western Lithotech named John J. Hsu
engineering and maintenance manager. Jonathan Goodin was named new methods
manager and Paul Schunk was named production manager.
PRESS
Brian LaBine was named president of Dauphin
Graphic Machines Inc. LaBine previously served as vice president of operations
at Quebecor World’s Retail Group. Chris Lunt will assume the role of chief
executive officer.
POSTPRESS
Greg Greenan joined Prim Hall Enterprises as vice
president of newspaper sales. He has 26 years of experience selling mailroom
equipment. He also worked as vice president of sales for Machine Design/Motion
Systems.
INDUSTRY
Craig Moon was named president and publisher of
USA Today. He replaces Tom Curley, who became president and chief executive
officer of The Associated Press. Moon most recently served as executive vice
president of Gannett Co. Inc.’s newspaper division. He also served as
president of The Tennessean in Nashville and president of Gannett’s Piedmont
Newspaper Group.
Meantime, H. Jesse Arnelle, Solomon D. Trujillo
and Karen Hastie Williams were re-elected to Gannett’s board of directors.
Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. hired Tom
Shafer as corporate vice president of production. Since 1999, Shafer has been
president and chief executive officer of CMYK University and president of
OpsFusion, a newspaper operations consulting group.
He served as publisher of the Jackson (Miss.)
Clarion-Ledger and has held senior management positions with Cox Newspapers,
including vice president of operations in Dayton, Ohio.
Shafer also served as corporate director of
production technologies at Thomson Newspapers. He was also a founding team
member of USA Today, serving as its first vice president of production field
operations
CanWest Global Communications Corp. made
wholesale executive changes at its money-losing National Post, removing two
editors and eliminating the position of publisher.
Axed in the move are Ken Whyte, editor-in-chief,
Martin Newland, deputy editor and Peter Viner, publisher. CanWest said Viner
would remain with the company to oversee its radio acquisition efforts. Also
leaving as part of the reorganization are senior sales, marketing and finance
executives, the company said.
Matthew Fraser, the Post’s media columnist, was
named editor-in-chief, while Bob McKenzie will become general manager. Michael
Cooke, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, will serve as an advisor.
CanWest also named David Asper chairman of the
Post. David is the older brother of CanWest chief executive Leonard Asper.
Thomas R. Norton, vice president of operations at
the York (Pa.) Newspaper Co., has been named managing director of NAA-Ifra
Technical Solutions LLC, a new joint operation between the Newspaper Association
of America and Ifra, a German-based international newspaper publishing
association.
