That's according to company spokeswoman Tara Connell. She didn't address my other question, though: Is the board about to seal a deal on a successor to Sue Clark-Johnson (left), the powerful retiring president of the Newspaper Division?My other no-duh speculation: The board could also announce a plan to break up the company into digital and non-digital entities -- the strategy that says the sum of the parts is greater than the whole (on Wall Street, anyway). CEO Craig Dubow has been cool to the idea.
Perhaps newly appointed Chief Digital Officer Chris Saridakis could be made CEO of the digital spin-off -- which I dubbed ElmiraDigital Co., when I wrote earlier about why Wall Street wants Gannett broken apart. After all, the former PointRoll CEO is entrepreneurial -- the sort of guy who's rarely happy in big, lumbering corporations. Putting him in charge of a digital spin-off would show that the board is serious about rapid change.
Where was she very powerful? In her mind and who else's?
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