"I am confident that Robin and her staff will do a terrific job in communicating Gannett's story to our employees and to the world outside the company."
-- Chief Financial Officer Gracia Martore, today, announcing Robin Pence's appointment as vice president of Corporate Communications. She will be responsible for media and public relations, employee communications and the company’s Internet and Intranet sites.
"I am confident that she and her staff will continue to do a terrific job communicating Gannett's success story to its employees and to the world outside the company."
-- CEO Doug McCorkindale, March 19, 2003, announcing Tara Connell's promotion to vice president/corporate communications. She was to be responsible for media and public affairs, publications, audiovisual and travel services groups -- up from mere lobbyist.
Earlier: What it takes to replace top 'interfacer' Connell.
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The new flack is listed as her own contact on her own press release!
ReplyDeleteNotice the elimination of the word "success" from the "Gannett story" in Robin's announcement vs Tara's?
ReplyDeleteI sure did.
Curiouser and curiouser....
Unless I'm mistaken, Corporate has once more churned out a press release introducing a new executive. And they don't list an age for her -- or am I missing it?
ReplyDeleteDoes it really matter who is giving out bad news??? Who really cares? Certainly not the employees............
ReplyDeletePathetic.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope she'll be better at communicating Gannett's "story" with us than Tara ever did.
That gave me a laugh. Nice find.
ReplyDeleteThe release says she will be responsible for the company's Internet sites. I assome that does not include the newspaper, etc., websites. Those presumably will be in Connell's portfolio, under ContentOne and the growing number of production hubs. See latest consolidation in Ohio.
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