Jacob Mathew, President of WAN-IFRA, announced today the appointment of Vincent Peyrègne as the organization’s incoming Chief Executive Officer.
Kevin Lord has been named senior vice president and chief human resources officer of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Gracia C. Martore, Gannett president and chief executive officer, announced today. Lord will join Gannett on October 22.
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the prosecution of 41 Turkish journalists on terrorism-related charges, calling their trial a move by the government to intimidate the press and silence criticism.
8th KBA Cortina user workshop at the Rheinische Post in Düsseldorf
Schibsted Media Group sold 36.3 per cent of the shares in Polaris Media ASA, a Norwegian regional media house, on 29 September 2011. The buyers were three strategic media owners and an international financial investor.
Statement from Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. Chairman, The New York Times Company Publisher, The New York Times
Craig Etheridge has been named senior vice president of Digital and Mobile Sales for Gannett and USA TODAY, Mary Murcko, Gannett’s president of Sales, announced today. Etheridge will be responsible for driving national advertising sales revenue across all of Gannett’s digital assets, including USA TODAY and USA WEEKEND. In addition, he will sell digital inventory to national advertisers for Gannett Broadcast’s 23 television stations and U.S. Community Publishing’s 81 local media properties. Etheridge has served as vice president of Mobile Advertising Sales for the company since 2010.
