Thursday, March 11, 2010

Graphics firm elects Clark-Johnson to board

Former newspaper division President Sue Clark-Johnson (left) has been elected to the board of directors of Chyron, a software firm that signed a contract in 2008 to help centralize graphics production for Gannett's 23-station TV division. Her appointment was announced today in a statement. The Melville, N.Y.-based company's chairman is former Gannett TV division president Roger Ogden. Clark-Johnson retired as newspaper division president in May 2008 as the company began a series of mass layoffs that have so far eliminated one in four jobs.
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11 comments:

  1. Anonymous3/11/2010 7:17 PM

    Geeezzz, she's still alive???? Didn't she grab enough money from Gannett already???? And to boot with Roger Ogden! LOL! The man that had to leave because "he had to pursue other interests". ROFL! Why not add them again to the payroll - at least it wouldn't be so obvious. Still chuckling...........

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  2. Anonymous3/11/2010 8:44 PM

    The graphics look awful from there. In fact our news director has told us to use as little of it as possible and make our own on the meager software that we have.

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  3. Anonymous3/11/2010 11:55 PM

    Heh, heh lighten up on the old girl. She has to support Mr Clark-Johnson and she needs some positive successes after her humiliating failure as the head of what used to be called the newspaper division. Sue you will always be fondly remembered as the enlightened visionary that once called the internet "The dirt road to nowhere" Enjoy!

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  4. Anonymous3/12/2010 12:00 AM

    Her husband was also a visionary. He single handedly made the Gannett paper in San Bernardino what it is today.....a Media News paper! Oh the stories we could share about him.

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  5. Anonymous3/12/2010 12:29 AM

    It really is a shame how the Haves in our society keep getting more and more while stepping on the Have Nots along the way. Apparently, she wasn't satisfied retiring rich to her Tahoe home after leading Gannett to the sorry state it's in today. Now she gets to suck a bunch of money out of another company. I bet she'll make a higher salary as a "retired" director than many of the journalists that she led down the road to ruin.

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  6. Anonymous3/12/2010 12:51 PM

    Getting invested with purple robes at Gannett seems to open the doors to lucrative futures forever. Look at the money the company is still shoveling Neuharth and his wife, the funds given Ken Paulson at the Newseum, and now this lucrative board of director post on a company whose future seems solely linked to GCI. So how do I get one of these purple robes?

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  7. Anonymous3/12/2010 9:05 PM

    Now you know to tell everyone to run for the hills from Chyron's stock. What a speck of a company: $25 million in revenue for all of 2009 and a net loss of $3.1 million. They can't afford real directors. They should just put the CEO, the chief bean counter, the flak, the head janitor and senior office gopher on the board. At $2.18 a share, no one seriously thinks this company is going anywhere.

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  8. Anonymous3/12/2010 10:26 PM

    to 9:50 PM

    If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride? Seems that's the legacy of Gannett elite. They get the horses, and we clean up the piles they leave in their paths.

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  9. Anonymous3/13/2010 12:28 PM

    Ogden and Clark-Johnson = 2 big farces.

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  10. Anonymous3/14/2010 5:54 PM

    Hope she's as good for them as she was for us. She was the originator of "good enough is good enough." With standards like those, no matter it all went to hell.

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  11. Anonymous3/16/2010 7:00 PM

    Sue Clark-Johnson joins Cronkite faculty

    http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/03/15/daily18.html

    Someone save these kids!

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