Gannett Completes Company Split to Move Forward as the Nation’s Largest Local-to-National Media Company
Also today,
“With more than 4,000 journalists across digital and print publications
in more than 110 markets across the U.S. and
Dickey will oversee an executive leadership team including:
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Alison Engel , Chief Financial Officer. Engel formerly was senior vice president, chief financial officer & treasurer ofA. H. Belo Corporation , and served that company following its spin-off in 2008 fromBelo Corp. -
Jamshid Khazenie , Chief Technology Officer. Khazenie joined oldGannett in 2014 as vice president of digital technology & operations. Prior to oldGannett , he served as vice president of digital media technologies at Turner Broadcasting Systems and led digital technology atOrbitz ,US News andPBS . -
David Payne , Chief Product Officer. Payne served as chief digital officer for oldGannett since 2011. He joined fromShortTail Media, Inc. where he served as president and CEO of the video ad technology start-up he co-founded in 2008. Prior to ShortTail, David was senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com. -
Maribel Perez Wadsworth , Chief Strategy Officer. Wadsworth previously served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives,U.S. Community Publishing , since 2014. From 2012 to 2014, she served as vice president of audience development and engagement and helped lead development and implementation of old Gannett’s All Access Subscription Model and USA TODAY Local Edition. Wadsworth joined oldGannett in 2009. -
Barbara Wall , Chief Legal Officer. Wall has served as vice president and senior associate general counsel for oldGannett since 2009 and joined the legal staff in 1985. Wall has represented old Gannett’s interests on a variety of issues, has written and lectured on the First Amendment, and has taught communications law at GeorgeWashington and American Universities.
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Andy Yost , Chief Marketing Office. Yost previously was senior vice president of consumer marketing for oldGannett , where he was responsible for all subscriber sales and retention for theU.S. Community Publishing properties and USA TODAY. Yost came to oldGannett in 2014 from Viacom Media Networks, where he served as senior vice president, marketing, customer relationship management. -
John Zidich , President ofDomestic Publishing . Zidich was formerly chief executive of Republic Media & publisher ofThe Arizona Republic . Before coming toPhoenix , he served as president & publisher of the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal, after starting hisGannett career in 1977 at the Stockton Record, formerly owned by oldGannett . -
David Harmon , Chief People Officer. Harmon will joinGannett onJuly 15 from the Federal Reserve Board where he served as the chief human capital officer. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of human resources and corporate services atAOL . -
Henry Faure Walker , Chief Executive Officer of Newsquest. Walker joined Newsquest in early 2014. Prior to joiningGannett , he was digital director forJohnston Press , another large regional publisher in theUK .
The new
Serving on the Gannett Board of Directors:
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John Jeffry Louis , Chairman,Gannett, Co -founder and former chairman,Parson Capital Corporation . -
Robert J. Dickey , Chief Executive Officer ofGannett . -
John E. Cody , President & former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer ofBroadcast Music, Inc. -
Lila Ibrahim , Chief Business Officer of Coursera. -
Larry S. Kramer , former President and Publisher of USA TODAY, former president of CBS Digital Media and founder of CBS MarketWatch. -
Tony A. Prophet , Corporate Vice President Education Marketing ofMicrosoft Corporation . -
Debra A. Sandler ,Chief Health and Wellbeing Officer ofMars, Inc. -
Chloe R. Sladden , Co-founder of #angels and former Vice President, Media, ofTwitter, Inc.
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