May 13-19 | Your News & Comments: Part 5

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May 13-19 | Your News & Comments: Part 4

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Marketing | That was then, and this is now

"This is an exciting time to join Gannett. There’s a fundamental shift in the relationship between consumers and media today, and Gannett is leading the way in transforming how it serves the needs of consumers."

-- Emma Gilding, quoted in an Aug. 6, 2012, press release, when Corporate announced that she'd been hired as vice president of brand research and strategy, reporting to Chief Marketing Officer Maryam Banikarim. Yesterday, nine months later, she left that job, according to a Gannett Blogger. On her LinkedIn profile, she now lists herself as a "principle" at GildingBerry&co.

May 13-19 | Your News & Comments: Part 3

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May 13-19 | Your News & Comments: Part 2

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Sponsors | With gifts, an encouraging note

Via snail mail, readers recently gave me two gifts: $20 and $60. That latter contribution was $5 per month for a year, according to the reader, who attached an encouraging Post-it note.

With advertising sales so far this quarter, I've now taken in $609:

• Reader donations: $153
• Advertising: $456

I'm trying to earn $4,000 quarterly, through donations of $5 per reader, plus advertising sales. Please use the PayPal "Donate" or "Subscribe" tools in the green rail, upper right. Or mail cash and checks payable to: Jim Hopkins, 584 Castro St. #823, San Francisco, Calif., 94114-2594.

St. George | Returning to GCI, Long named pub

Corporate just announced that Rhett Long has been named publisher of The Spectrum in St. George, Utah. He replaces Donnie Welch, who announced in March that he was leaving to start a local business.

Long comes from marketing supplies producer InnerWorkings, where he was vice president of national accounts. Previously, Long held several jobs with Gannett, including vice president of operations for Gannett Pacific Publications.

The Spectrum's Monday-Saturday circulation is 14,089, and Sunday is 17,399, according to the March 31 AAM report. (Circulation database lookup.)

May 13-19 | Your News & Comments: Part 1

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