Suburban Chicago’s Daily Herald,  part of  Paddock Publications, has just announced that Kelly Bolyard is the paper’s new director of digital development. Bolyard adds this to her role of online sales and classified advertising head.

A five-year Daily Herald veteran, Bolyard used to direct business consulting and online revenue for Morris Communications’ 27 daily newspaper websites.

She serves on Paddock’s Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, a collaboration she helped bring about.

Jeff Herr, VP for interactive at Lee Enterprises, is to be the new  interactive  VP at The California Newspapers Partnership. Herr begins his new career with the state’s largest newspaper publishing group Sept. 27.

“Jeff’s achievements and keen focus on emerging media technologies and platforms as well as his proven abilities to effectively monetize those opportunities makes him the ideal talent for this important role,” CNP President and CEO Steve Rossi told the San Jose Mercury News.

CNP, whose majority owner is MediaNews Group, publishes the Mercury News, Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune.  In total, it publishes 34 dailies and 50 weeklies.

Target Media Partners just announced the relaunch of its Recycler.com, and the site’s expansion U.S.-wide. Recycler.com is the online companion to a 37-year-old print free classified publication. The new national site offers advanced search features, keyword highlights, seller profiles and live user support.

“Our local free-ad model was so successful, we felt it was time to take it national, and to give buyers and sellers across the nation a better alternative to what is currently being offered in the online classified marketplace,” said Pam Johnston, Recycler.com’s COO, in the announcement. “We’ve retained Recycler.com’s local content and feel, while providing users greater flexibility with expanded search options and state-of-the-art technology.” Read the rest of this entry »

Zillow, which just nine months ago added rental listings to its real estate search site has now added another 90,000 managed-rental listings to its database through a collaboration with Apartments.com, a Classified Ventures site.

The new listings include unit details, photos, floor plans and contact information for the property managers. Read the rest of this entry »

John Winn Miller, most recently publisher of The Olympian in Washington, is to be  publisher of the Concord (NH) Monitor.

A former AP reporter and Pulitzer finalist who worked in Rome, Beirut, Libya, India, Ethiopia and Bulgaria, Miller was also city editor at the Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader before becoming executive editor at the Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.) and then SVP  of the Tallahassee (FL) Democrat.

Miller succeeds Geordie Wilson.