Peter Newton joins Gatehouse in new post
Peter Newton, who’s had a long and varied career involving newspapers, dot-coms and independent businesses, has joined GateHouse Media as president of GateHouse Ventures, a new position.
The company also shifted Jay Fogarty to VP of strategy and innovation from VP of new revenue platforms.
“We are very excited to announce … Peter’s appointment [which] comes as we are moving from a successful diligence phase in some of our new ventures to an execution phase, a period in which we begin to scale our new businesses,” said Kirk Davis, GateHouse COO.
Newton spent 17 years at The Boston Globe, including finance and advertising positions. He was president of BostonWorks, the Globe’s print-and-online recruitment program before the paper became a Monster.com affiliate. Newton later joined Monster.com, serving as SVP and GM of small and mid-sized businesses and heading Monster Media Alliance, which grew to more than 350 affiliates. He also worked as VP for bizdev at Helium.com, a content farm, and ran his own consultancy, Big Rock Consulting Group, for about two years.
The announcement is here.
Ringier CFO ‘reorganized’ out
After bad financial results for 2011 and the ousting of the company´s CEO a few weeks ago, now Ringier has announced that the company´s CFO Tobias Schulz-Isenbeck is out after eight months of duty.
In a very brief press note Ringier (here in English) explained that Tobias Schulz-Isenbeck leaves “due to the reorganization at the management head.” A company spokesman pointed out that retirement had nothing to do with the weaker financial results of Ringier and that there are no further changes planned in the management of the company.
The 44-years-old Schulz-Isenbeck had just switched from the leading German newspaper group Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt last September, where he also had been CFO and speaker chairman. New interim CFO is Annabella Bassler, until now head of Corporate Finance & Controlling at the Ringier Holding. The new CEO Marc Walder expressed the wish that Tobias Schulz-Isenbeck would continue to support the company as a consultant.
In 2011 Ringier achieved 9 per cent lower revenues of CHF 1.15 billion, with a decrease of the company´s EBITDA of 44 per cent to CHF 64 million and a reduction of net profits to CHF 22.8 million (CHF 61.7 million in 2010).
Millstein promoted to EVP, Hearst Newspapers
Lincoln Millstein, a long-time interactive-media executive for two of the largest newspaper companies in the United States, has been promoted to executive VP and deputy group head of Hearst Newspapers.
Millstein, 52, has been active in a number of newspaper initiatives and partnerships, including the Newspaper Consortium; newspaper alliances with Monster.com; Find n Save, the shopping site created out of the Travidia business, and QuadrantOne, the display-ad exchange owned by Hearst and three other media companies.
Before joining Hearst in 2005, Millstein spent five years as EVP of New York Times Digital. He helped launch Boston.com in 1995. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe and The Hartford (Conn.) Courant.
Hearst publishes 15 daily and 37 weekly newspapers, including the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, San Antonio (Texas) Express-News and Albany (N.Y.) Times-Union.
Former Monster, AOL exec joins LifeCare
Sam Tharp, who oversaw the production of AOL’s Instant Messenger and the management of the former Monster-owned MonsterMoving.com, is to be the new SVP LifeCare Online for employee productivity and loyalty service firm LifeCare Inc. Most recently, Tharp was CMO at music-industry-focused OnStage.com.
Here’s the announcement: Continue reading
Dot-MLS executive joins Zillow
By Sharon Hill
Bob Bemis
Bob Bemis, executive director of the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service in Phoenix, and the driving force behind the Dot-MLS project of the MLS Domains Association, has just been named VP of partner relations for Zillow. He’ll be relocating to Seattle. We have to wonder what that means for the future of the dot-MLS project, and what Zillow’s role with that might be. We’ve asked for a conversation. Continue reading
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