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Randy Reese joined Polkadots
Software as vice president of sales for the United States and Canada. Reese
comes to Polkadots from Southern Lithoplate, where he served as strategic
accounts manager.
GMG named Christian Schwarze
worldwide sales director.
Southern Lithoplate appointed
Steve Mumford Canadian regional manager.
Alfaquest Technologies
appointed Jud Edwards as district sales manager in the Southeast. He will also
assist in the sale of the firm’s alfaMedia cross-media publishing and content
management apps in North America.
Digital Technology
International named Mary Olson vice president of operations; Dan Paulus, vice
president of sales and marketing; and Jeff Carpenter, chief information officer
and vice president of business development.
Scripps names new board members
The E. W. Scripps Co. named directors who will serve on the governing
board of the new E.W. Scripps unit being formed to oversee the company’s
newspaper and broadcast properties: William R. Burleigh, chairman of the
board and former president and chief executive officer of the company;
John H. Burlingame, retired partner, Baker & Hostetler and a trustee of
the Edward W. Scripps Trust; Nackey E. Scagliotti, chairman of the Union
Leader Corp. and a trustee of The Edward W. Scripps Trust; David M.
Moffett, senior adviser for the Carlyle Group and retired vice chairman
and chief financial officer of US Bancorp; and Paul K. Scripps, retired
vice president/newspapers, the E. W. Scripps Co.
Richard A. Boehne will
join the board on July 1, and will become president and chief executive
officer of the company.
Others joining include
Mary McCabe Peirce, a great-granddaughter of the company’s founder and a
trustee of the Edward W. Scripps Trust; John W. Hayden, president and
chief executive officer of the Midland Co.; Roger Ogden, retired
president and chief executive officer, Gannett Broadcasting, and a
retired senior vice president of Gannett Co. Inc.; and Kim Williams,
retired senior vice president, partner and associate director of global
industry research, Wellington Management Co. LLP.
Current director Julie
A. Wrigley is retiring from the board upon completion of her term this
year. |
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Web Press Corp. named Mike
Collins national sales manager. Collins was promoted to the position after
serving as a Web Press sales executive since February 2007.
Meantime, the firm named
Olivia D. Bernabe controller and vice president of finance and promoted David
Skaggs to vice president of manufacturing. Both Bernabe and Skaggs will join the
company’s board of directors.
Finally, Rick Guinn was named
senior vice president. He’ll hold the post while continuing to serve as vice
president of operations.
Consultancy AIM Group added
Barbari Griesse and Sandra J. Smith to its Classified Intelligence division.
INDUSTRY
The Associated Press named
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, Tribune Chairman Sam Zell, Community
Newspaper Holdings Inc. Chairman Donna J. Barrett and Gannett Co. Chairman Craig
A. Dubow to its board of directors.
Gannett Co. Inc. re-elected
Craig A. Dubow, Donna E. Shalala and Neal Shapiro to its board of directors.
A. H. Belo Corp. named David
R. Ellett senior vice president, president and general manager of Belo
Interactive Media.
Journal Communications Inc.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Paul M. Bonaiuto announced
his retirement, effective later this year.
Gannett Co. Inc. named William
C. Hidlay president and publisher of the Courier News in Bridgewater, N.J., and
the Home News Tribune in East Brunswick, N.J.
OBITUARY
W. Frederick Craig, a former
faculty member of the School of Printing at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, passed away last month. He was 81.
Mr. Craig was inducted into
the West Virginia Printing Hall of Fame in 1997. He published seven books about
the history of his hometown, Reedy, W. Va., where his father, Fred E. Craig,
published The Reedy News.
Mr. Craig served in the U.S.
Navy as a printer aboard the USS Cascade during World War II.
He is survived by his wife,
two children and two grandchildren.