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PREPRESS
Screen (USA) promoted Scott
Benson to the newly created position of product coordinator for CTP/Workflow.
Kodak’s Graphic Communication
Group promoted David Martin and Richard Lloyd to new positions in the newspaper
segment. Martin was named national and strategic account manager, while Lloyd
was named solution sales manager for the newspaper segment’s Central North
region.
CCI Europe named Audrey Glenn
as marketing and communications manager.
La Toya Hodge was named
manager of marketing com-munications by Agfa.
International Color Quality Club
winners
WASHINGTON — Members of the most recent class to be welcomed into the
International Newspaper Color Quality Club were honored at a ceremony
during Nexpo.
The winners were chosen among 198 newspapers from 39
countries that participated in the worldwide newspaper printing quality
competition backed by the Newspaper Association of America, Ifra and the
Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
First-time and sole
U.S. winner Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press was represented by Mike Novak,
pressroom manager and Aaron Phipps, assistant production manager. The
Press printed its winning entry using a GeoMAN 75 shaftless press from
MAN Roland.
Anthony Cheng, senior
vice president at Singapore Press Holdings, won four awards. The
publisher uses equipment from Goss International Corp. at its main
printing center.
Novak, Phipps
Cheng |
PRESS
RBP Chemical Technology named
Scott Cerny technical sales representative.
POSTPRESS
K&M Newspaper Services Inc.
named Tim Dudley Midwest regional sales representative.
NEW MEDIA
MediaSpan Media Software named
Ken Freedman vice president of sales.
INDUSTRY
Lee Enterprises Inc. promoted
Suzanna Frank from director of research and marketing to the new position of
vice president, audience. Lee also appointed Nancy L. Green to vice president of
circulation for Lee St. Louis and president of STL Distribution Services. David
Braton will succeed her as publisher of the Waterloo Courier in Waterloo-Cedar
Falls, Iowa.
Gannett Ring winners honored
Bill Taylor, operations director at the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat, was
named production executive of the year by Gannett for his outstanding
performance in 2007. Others recognized with a President’s Ring were Tom
Travis, the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky., first runner-up; and Bob
Walters, the Journal News, Westchester County, N.Y.; second runner-up.
They were joined by Bill
Bolger, the Indianapolis Star; Bob Kotwasinski, the (Phoenix) Arizona
Republic; Jack Roth, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press; Tom Barcikowski,
Chillicothe (Ohio) Gazette; Kevin Crane, Gannett Central New York
Production Facility, Binghamton, N.Y.; Keith Pierce, Detroit Media
partnership; and Mike Monscour, the News-Press, Fort Myers, Fla.
Meantime, five IT
executives were also recognized for their work. They are Phil Legler,
Wisconsin Newspapers; Gary Shawd, the Courier-Journal; Sidney Fung,
Gannett Michigan; Dee Dee Gober, Pacific Newspaper Group; and John
Parish, the Journal News. |
Janet Owen joined The
Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., as production director.
E.W. Scripps Co. named Javier
J. Aldape vice president of niche products for the company’s newspaper
division.
The Los Angeles Newspaper
Group named Brent W. Morris as vice president of interactive.
Gannett named Kate Marymount
vice president of Information Center Content. She formerly served as executive
editor of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla.
OBITUARIES
Dick Williams, an original
founder of Presstek Inc., died after an extended illness. He was 73. Mr.
Williams served as Presstek’s chief technology officer until his retirement in
2003. He also served as chairman of Presstek’s board of directors from 1998 to
2004.