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New publisher at Lafayette (LA) Advertiser

Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by StaggerLee, May 12, 2007.

  1. StaggerLee

    StaggerLee Well-Known Member

    Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, and if so, please move to the appropriate folder.

    Lafayette moved quickly in finding a new publisher, which leads me to believe this has been brewing for a few weeks.

    http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070511/NEWS01/70511032

    Hurst named publisher of The Daily Advertiser

    Leslie Hurst has been named president and publisher of The Daily Advertiser, the Daily World and The Times of Acadiana.

    Hurst comes to Lafayette from Lansing, Mich., where she was president and publisher of the Lansing State Journal, a 70,000 circulation daily.

    She was also vice president of Gannett's Midwest Newspaper Group with responsibility for newspapers across mid-Michigan that reached almost a million readers daily.

    In her new role, she will be vice president of Gannett's SunCoast group, which includes newspapers in Florida and Louisiana.

    Hurst also has worked in Idaho, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Florida. She started her career as a reporter/editor for The Shreveport Journal.



    She's got a resume a mile long, anybody have any experience with her?
     
  2. printdust

    printdust New Member

    Gannett's finally pushing some of that top-heavy upper management into the newspaper equivalent of "golden parachutes." It's what all of them get after they've raped the previous place for all its worth. Ain't that right, G-people --- or recovering G-people?
     
  3. tyler durden 71351

    tyler durden 71351 Active Member

    That isn't surprising that something like this happened so quick. You know Gannett ain't gonna start moving publishers around unless they have replacements all sewn up.
     
  4. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    This is funny to me.

    The previous publisher, the guy who's going to Reno, we go back a ways.

    He took a little run at me a few weeks back on the Lafayette SE's job.

    Imagine taking that job, getting there and then having the guy who hired you packed out before you can get unpacked.

    Yeesh.
     
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You got a call too? Mine came from the editor
     
  6. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    I regarded mine as morre of a courtesy call.

    No way I make that move, for a variety of family reasons, but I don't blame him for making the call.

    I see that Reno is looking and I halfway expect to get a call about that, too.

    On Reno, I would at least make a visit. ;)
     
  7. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    How far is Tahoe from Reno, 15 minutes? No, wait it really is 15 minutes.
    An oldie but goodie.
    Be sure to try the baked chicken and don't forget to tip your server.
     
  8. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    Wow, that's two (and possibly three) old-school shoutouts in one 33-word (more or less) post.
     
  9. StaggerLee

    StaggerLee Well-Known Member

    I thought about that. I wonder how Bob Heist is feeling right now. Ted Power actively sought him out and got him to leave Jackson, TN for Lafayette.

    Now he's got to deal with a new publisher. And I'm sure Ted Power promised him everything.
     
  10. JayFarrar

    JayFarrar Well-Known Member

    Before I posted, I was a long-time lurker, then had a different handle and now my present incarnation, King, I mean Hejira.
     
  11. HejiraHenry

    HejiraHenry Well-Known Member

    The King? He's dead, but he's not forgotten ...
     
  12. Riddick

    Riddick Active Member

    Damn! That's fucked up!
     
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