Carroll Named Director of News Development for Gannett's News Division.ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 1999-- Jennifer Carroll, managing editor of The Detroit News, will become Director of News Development in the Newspaper Division of Gannett Co., Inc., it was announced today. Carroll will assume her new role in the News Department on Jan. 1, said Phil Currie Phil Currie, born in Toronto, formerly the head of Dinosaur Research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, is now a researcher and prominent palaeontologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. , Senior Vice President/News. She will help oversee all aspects of the department, with special focus on development and advancement of new programs for news operations at Gannett's newspapers. She also will work with newsrooms in building content quality and credibility and will help shape greater integration of newsroom and online news operations. "Jennifer Carroll is a great addition to our news team as we move to the new millennium," said Currie. "She has had excellent newspaper experience at four newspapers in the company, she has been part of innovative efforts in news, and she heads an APME APME Associated Press Managing Editors APME Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe APME Applications, Programming Models, and Environments APME Asia Pacific and Middle East APME AsiaPacific MediaEducator committee addressing credibility with readers -- one of the critical issues we face." Carroll, 41, has been managing editor of The Detroit News since August 1997. She previously had been executive editor of The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press for three years. She had reporting and editing experience at the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, beginning in 1984 as a reporter and rising to managing editor in 1990. A graduate of Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. , she began her career in November 1981 as a reporter at the Times-Herald in Port Huron Port Huron (hy  r`ən), city (1990 pop. 33,694), seat of St. Clair co., S Mich., a natural, deepwater port of entry at the junction of the St. Clair River with Lake Huron; inc. 1857. , Mich. Carroll was a member of the initial group of executives who helped create Gannett's NEWS 2000 program in 1991. She was in subsequent groups that developed modifications to the program over the years to meet the changing needs of readers. She was among 15 editors in Gannett's first Senior Editor Management Development Program and was one of a group of executives participating in a Newspaper Division program, "Beyond Year 2000." She has served three terms as a board member for Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Managing Editors and is the current chair of APME's Credibility Committee. In that role, she has worked to expand ways in which newspapers across the country can build greater credibility with readers. Gannett Co., Inc. is an international news and information company that publishes 74 daily newspapers in the USA, including USA TODAY USA Today National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s. , the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper. The company also owns a variety of non-daily publications, including USA WEEKEND USA WEEKEND Magazine is a national publication distributed through more than 600 newspapers in the United States. It reaches 49 million [1] readers in 23 million households [2] every weekend. , a weekly magazine. Newsquest plc, a wholly owned Gannett subsidiary acquired in mid-1999, is the largest regional newspaper publisher in England with 11 daily newspapers and a variety of non-daily publications, including Berrow's Worcester Journal Berrow's Worcester Journal claims to be the oldest continually published newspaper in the World[1] and is owned by Newsquest, the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the country. , the oldest continuously published newspaper in the world. Gannett also operates cable television systems in three states and 21 television stations. |
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