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Executive suite: At Morris Communications Co. LLC of Augusta, Ga., William S. Morris IV has been named chief executive; previously, he'd been president of Morris Communications for 19 years and chief executive of Morris Venture Capital for three years. Will Morris joined the family business in 1990 in Athens, Ga., where he was assistant to the publisher of the Banner Herald/Daily News and general manager of Athens magazine. Later, he was general manager of Florida's St. Augustine Record and from 1992-1995, publisher in Athens. In 1995, Will Morris moved to corporate. Will Morris replaces his father, William S. Morris III, who remains chairman of the company and publisher of its flagship Augusta Chronicle, jobs he has held for 19 and 49 years, respectively. ... At Gannett Co. Inc. of McLean, Va., Kevin Gentzel has been named chief revenue officer, a new role; previously, he'd been North American head of ad sales at Yahoo.com for nine months. From 2013-2014, Gentzel was CRO of the Washington Post and in the 17 months previous, he was CRO of News Distribution Network Inc. in New York City. Gentzel started with Forbes magazine in 1999 and rose to become vice president and publisher. From 2006-2009, he was chief advertising officer for Forbes.com and from 2009-2010, he was president and group publisher of Forbes Media. He served as chief revenue officer of Forbes Media from 2010-2012. ...

Publishers: At DailyVoice.com of Armonk, N.Y., a local-news site serving Westchester, Putnam, and Fairfield counties, Kathryn DeSilva has been named publisher; previously, she'd been the site's sales director for a year. DeSilva joined the organization in 2011 as senior director of digital marketing and regional sales director. From 2008-2011, DeSilva was marketing and special projects director at Tri-State Media Group/Pennysaver of Pelham, N.Y., and Nanuet, N.Y., and in the five previous years she was with Chase Media Group/Pennysaver of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. DeSilva started her sales career with Mary Kay Cosmetics, where over a decade she earned six automobiles, including the famous pink Cadillac. ... At Civitas Media's Lima News in Ohio, Pamela Stricker has been named publisher; previously, she was publisher of the company's Wilmington News-Journal, also in Ohio, and assistant regional director and business development manager for 14-3/4 years. From 1994-2000, Stricker was with Gannett's Cincinnati Enquirer, where she rose to ad sales manager. Stricker got her start in newspapers in 1974 as a graphic artist at Leader Publishing. ... At Community Newspaper Holdings' Gainesville Daily Register in Texas, Lisa Chappell has been named publisher; previously, she'd been publisher at the company's The Herald-Banner of Greenville, Texas, for a little more than eight years. From 2005-2007, Chappell was ad director in Greenville. Chappell joined The Herald-Banner in 2003 as a sales rep. ...

Front office: At Halifax/GateHouse's StarNews of Wilmington, N.C., Dave Cuddihy has been named ad director; previously, he was auto and recruitment ad director at Hearst Connecticut (Bridgeport's Connecticut Post, The Advocate of Stamford, Greenwich Time, Danbury's News-Times, et al.), a job he'd held for 13 months. From 2013-2014, Cuddihy was ad manager at Indiana's Fort Wayne Newspapers, and in the 4-1/2 previous years, he was transportation, food and clubs ad director at Florida's Naples Daily News. Cuddihy started his career in 2001 as Internet sales manager at an auto dealership in St. Clairsville, Ohio, and started in newspapers at West Virginia's Parkersburg News in 2004. From 2006-2008, he was classified manager for the Columbus Dispatch's"ThisWeek," and from 2008-2009, he was classified manager at Alaska's Anchorage Daily News. ... At Southern Community Newspapers' Albany Herald in Georgia, Doffice Johnson has been named circulation manager; previously, he'd been a district manager at Southern Community's Clayton News Daily in Jonesboro, Ga., for 3-1/4 years. From 2010-2012, Johnson was an advertising account executive at the News Daily. Johnson got his start in circulation as a carrier for Georgia's Atlanta Journal-Constitution in the mid-1980s and a year later joined Jonesboro paper in circulation management. ... At Fort Wayne Newspapers in Indiana (Journal Gazette, The News-Sentinel), Lori Fritz has been named sales and marketing director, a new role; previously, she'd been circulation director. Fritz joined Fort Wayne Newspapers in 1986 and has been customer service manager, circulation operations manager and consumer marketing manager. Replacing Fritz as circulation director will be Kevin Lentz; previously, he was associate circulation director for eight years. Lentz has been with the Fort Wayne titles since 1982 and has worked in home delivery, single copy sales and customer service. From 1978-1982, Lentz owned his own business. ... At The New York Times Co., Clay Fisher has been named senior vice president for consumer marketing; previously, he'd been vice president of digital marketing and media group at DirecTV of New York City for 1-1/2 years. Fisher joined DirecTV in 2011 as senior director for digital marketing and e-commerce. From 2009-2011, Fisher was head of digital marketing at Travelocity.com of suburban Dallas, and in the five years previous, he'd been global director of search marketing of Monster.com of Weston, Mass. Fisher started his career in 1998 when he founded the online marketing firm Intellitraffic, where he served as managing director for 6-1/4 years. ...

Newsroom names: At Lee's Sioux City Journal in Iowa, Jackie Kaczmarek has been named managing editor for features; previously, she'd been managing editor for news for 21 months. From 2006-2013, Kaczmarek was executive editor of Lee's The Sentinel of Hanford, Calif. (in the last eight months, she was concurrently publisher). In the previous five years, Kaczmarek was senior editor at McClatchy's Merced Sun-Star in the California Central Valley and in 2004-2005, she was managing editor of the nearby Turlock Journal. Kaczmarek, a native of Great Britain, had her first editor gig at the Humboldt Sun in Winnemucca, Nev., where she ran the paper from 1992-2001. Kaczmarek will be replaced by Dave Dreeszen; previously, he'd been business editor of the Journal for almost 16 years. Dreeszen joined the Journal as a political and general assignment reporter in 1989 and was named city hall reporter in 1993. He started his career at the Northwest Iowa Review in Sheldonin 1986 as a reporter. ... At the Oxford Eagle in Mississippi, Stephanie Rebman has been named editor; previously, she'd been news editor of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo since June. Rebman had been with the Daily Journal for nine years, starting out as a copy editor and then serving as night editor. She started her career in the mid-2000s as a writer and editor at Alabama's Alexander City Outlook and Dadeville Record and later was weeklies editor at Georgia's Carrollton Times-Georgian. Rebman replaces Don Whitten, who is retiring after a decade as editor in Oxford. Whitten joined the paper as sports editor in 1977 straight out of college and held that job for the next 28 years. ... #

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