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Tribune Publishing's
Tim Landon Named President of Tribune Interactive and Classifieds
Brigid Kenney
assumes expanded role as general manager of new combined
division
CHICAGO, March 2, 2004 -- Tribune
Publishing (NYSE:TRB) today announced that Tim Landon has
been named president of Tribune Interactive and Classifieds,
a newly established division in the publishing group that
combines the operations of Tribune Interactive (TI) and Tribune
Classified Services (TCS). Landon had been president of the
TCS unit. Brigid Kenney, TI’s chief financial
officer and vice president/operations, will expand her
role and become general manager of the new division.
"The integration of TI and TCS will make
us even more effective in serving our customers with great
cross-media solutions," said David Hiller, Tribune
Publishing senior vice president. "Under the proven
leadership of Tim Landon and Brigid Kenney, the TI and TCS
teams will ensure that Tribune continues to lead the way
for the industry in sustaining the vitality of classifieds
and the growth of our online businesses."
Landon will be responsible for overall
interactive and classified advertising strategy, technology
and operations, including the company’s print and
online classified businesses and interactive operations
of more than 50 news and information websites.
As general manager, Kenney will oversee interactive strategy
and development, operations and interactive sales in addition
to her current responsibilities for administration and finance,
operations and human resources.
Landon was named president of TCS in
June 2000 with responsibility for Tribune’s overall classified advertising strategy
and operations. He has been instrumental in Tribune’s
investments in online classifieds partnerships with CareerBuilder.com
and Classified Ventures; and led the company’s efforts
to bring print and online recruitment products to Tribune’s
newspaper markets.
From 1999 to 2000, Landon served as vice president/business
development of Tribune Interactive, overseeing strategic
planning and development. Before that, he was vice president/general
manager of Sun-Sentinel Company in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
from 1998 to 1999. Previously, he served as vice president/strategy
and development for Tribune Publishing and acting CEO of
Classified Ventures.
From 1996 to 1997, Landon was Tribune’s
vice president and director/strategy, research and development.
He began his Tribune career in 1986 as a classified advertising
representative at the Chicago Tribune, and later held a
number of advertising positions including advertising development
manager in 1991, and vice president/marketing and development
in1993.
Kenney was named chief financial officer
for Tribune Interactive in 1999 and added responsibilities
as vice president/operations in July 2002. Previously,
she was director/treasury operations for Tribune Company
from 1997 to 1999, and was named assistant treasurer in
May 1999. Kenney joined Tribune in 1993 as manager of accounting
and external reporting and was promoted to director/accounting
and financial reporting in 1994. Prior to joining Tribune,
she was an audit manager with Arthur Andersen & Co.
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Tribune Publishing is the leading U.S.
major-market newspaper group, with the third-largest total
circulation. The company operates 14 daily newspapers: Los
Angeles Times ; Chicago Tribune ; Newsday (Long
Island, N.Y.); The Sun (Baltimore); South Florida
Sun-Sentinel ; Orlando Sentinel ; Hartford
Courant ; The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa . ); Daily
Press (Newport News, Va.); The Advocate (Stamford,
Conn.); Greenwich Time (Greenwich, Conn.); and Hoy, a
Spanish-language newspaper published in New York, Los Angeles
and Chicago. Additional newspapers for Hispanic consumers,
each published weekly, are El Sentinel in Orlando
and el Sentinel in South Florida . Tribune Publishing
includes Tribune Media Services, a leading provider of entertainment
listings and content syndication to print and electronic
media; Tribune Interactive, a top source of online news and
information; and CLTV, the Chicago region's only 24-hour
cable news channel. Investments include CareerBuilder (33%
owned) and Classified Ventures (29%). |
