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Victoria Advocate Employees Promoted
Victoria, TX - Three Victoria Advocate employees were recently promoted as part of the publishing company's leadership development plan.
Stephen McHaney, Dan Easton and Brenda Miller-Fergerson assumed roles as vice president/assistant general manager.
McHaney previously served as vice president/comptroller; Easton as vice president/interactive; and Miller-Fergerson as general manager of new product development.
All three will take on executive development and coaching responsibilities for the upcoming years, in addition to other responsibilities.
The promotions are part of a plan to allow the senior managers to play a greater role in running the company, said Barry Peckham, the newspaper's president and general manager.
"Stephen, Dan and Brenda have earned these opportunities," he said. "I look forward to working with them as we develop the next generation of leaders for the Advocate."
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STATESMANJOBS PARTNERS WITH YAHOO! HOTJOBS
AUSTIN, Texas (September 24, 2007) - Today, the Austin American-Statesman, the local leader in print and online media, launched a suite of comprehensive online products and services on the statesman.com/jobs Web site which will be powered by the Yahoo! HotJobs search-and-job-posting technology. Together, they provide a comprehensive local and national jobs network and product suite.
Recruitment advertisers will reach a larger, more diverse pool of job seekers, while job seekers will have access to an expanded network with enhanced job searching, job matching and resume tools. In addition, job searches through the statesman.com/jobs home page will scan the entire Yahoo! HotJobs database, giving job seekers easy access to thousands of additional jobs.
Employers will have easy-to-use navigation points where they can register, log in, post jobs or learn more about the expanded portfolio of application management and search tools, job posting tools and media technology. The entire product portfolio of online, print and niche publication products is available for employers with the click of a button.
“We are thrilled with the power this partnership brings. It offers a one-stop source for local and national recruiting needs and best-of-class technology for employers and job seekers,” said Ron Mann, Classified Advertising Director.
Users will notice statesman.com/jobs has been redesigned with a new co-branded home page, featuring a Yahoo! HotJobs module as well as links to statesman.com/jobs content. In addition, the Sunday StatesmanJobs section masthead now reflects the new partnership with Yahoo! HotJobs. The section will continue to feature weekly local employment-related stories.
The Austin American-Statesman joined a consortium of more than 360 daily newspapers nationally, including all of the daily Cox Newspapers, to form this partnership with Yahoo! HotJobs.
The Austin American-Statesman is the leading medium in Central Texas, reaching more than 800,000 readers every week. In print and online, Statesman brands reach 2 out of 3 adults in the Austin area every week. Together, Statesman brands are Central Texas’ top news, entertainment, shopping and information sources. For more information on the Austin American-Statesman and its family of products and brands, contact Lisa Sullivan at 512-445-3860 or lsullivan@statesman.com
San Angelo Standard-Times Launches 46-Inch Web
San Angelo, Tx. - On August 27, the San Angelo Standard-Times daily newspaper began print production on the 46-inch press web and launched a new editorial front end system and new page design. Information Systems Director Mike Clift said, "We published a new design, with a new system, for a new size web, on time and with virtually no problems. It was a huge success for us all."
While some other newspapers chose to convert to the 48-inch web, the Standard-Times chose to make the leap to 46-inches. According to Editor Tim Archuleta, "The timing was right. We made both changes to be better prepared for the future."
The conversion in both the pressroom and the newsroom required methodical planning beginning months in advance. Archuleta said, "We worked out a very detailed plan to manage these changes. Our staff was eager to get its hands on new technology so the switch to ATS was relatively painless. The ATS system and narrower web has helped us produce a cleaner newspaper. We are trying new things with our staff, including publishing directly to our Web site, that weren't possible with our older system."
The transition for readers was seemingly transparent. Newspaper staff, in fact, took calls from readers with compliments on the more compact size and the cleaner look of the newspaper.
Readers did express one common complaint, however. The crossword and Sudoku puzzles grew smaller on August 27. Within a matter of days, newsroom staff reverted to the original, larger sizes. Archuleta cautions other newspaper management heading toward such a conversion, "Don't overlook the puzzles page. The size of the puzzles matters to a lot of core readers."
The San Angelo Standard-Times and its web site gosanangelo.com are part of the E.W. Scripps Company. The Standard-Times is the only daily published in San Angelo and is the leading source of news and information for a 37-county region of Central and West Texas.