Corporate has named a former MediaNews Group marketing and sales executive, Mark Winkler, as the new publisher of The Desert Sun in southern California's Palm Springs. He starts Sept. 27, and replaces Rich Ramhoff, whose departure was announced less than two weeks ago, after the paper reportedly missed advertising revenue targets.
In addition to running the Sun, Winkler will be a vice president in Gannett's regional West Group of newspapers, overseeing dailies in California's Visalia, Tulare, and Salinas, plus the U.S. territory of Guam.
Winkler, 50, was executive vice president, chief sales officer, and chief marketing officer for Denver-based MediaNews until March, when he left the company in a cost-saving shake-up after that newspaper publisher exited bankruptcy court, according to Westword.
MediaNews and Gannett are partners in the Detroit newspaper publishing business, as well as in a publishing partnership in California, Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania.
He is the second publisher Gannett has hired from outside the company this year; in late May, a former Boston Globe advertising executive was named chief executive of The Montgomery Advertiser.
Prior to MediaNews, Winkler was chief operating officer for Capital Securities Real Estate, a global real estate investments fund, according to a Gannett statement. From 2000-2006, he was a division vice president/general manager for Comcast Communications and from 2004-2006 had oversight of corporate interactive and new sales technologies for Comcast. From 1997-2000, he was a western region vice president for Media One of Los Angeles, Calif.
Winkler is a cum laude graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, the statement says.
His LinkedIn profile
How Winkler summarizes his background on the job network website:
Visionary leader that guides expeditious results and imparts a proven track record in the media industry, with profound proficiency in management, including sales, marketing, operations, and financial administration and oversight. Recognized for driving over $1 billion in annual revenue for traditional and innovative advertising media such as national, regional, and local spot cable and broadcast, digital media (content driven portals, E-commerce sites, SEM and SEO solutions), addressable advertising, digital publishing, print, niche publications, mobile, and e-mail marketing. Vast product and people knowledge and results orientation in revenue goal achievement, maximizing capital, and establishing efficient process for multiple product sales, both B2B and B2C. Significant understanding of the sales and marketing process as it relates a variety of vertical markets and a diverse client base. Demonstrated talent building consensus, fostering a passion for excellence, and igniting a competitive will in others that anything is possible. Energized by opportunities to help teams crystallize visions and propel business initiatives to exceed goals. Recognized as a positive change agent, with the ability to overcome all barriers and obstacles to successful and enhanced outcomes.
Related: the Sun's story about Winkler's appointment
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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Jim, your research has reached new heights - well, it has reached new levels. I see you've now added Google and cut & paste to your bag of tricks. I’m surprised you didn’t copy something from Facebook. Is there anything out there you can share that we can’t easily find out for ourselves?
ReplyDeleteFrom his LinkedIn profile, Winkler sure thinks highly of himself! I question why Media News cut him loose if he was so great. And it appears that he has bounced around alot. Sounds like a guy that knows how to shovel the marketing bs. My guess is that he's another empty suit just lookin' out for himself... he'll be gone in two years. (But for that matter, the entire company will probably be gone in two years, too.)
ReplyDelete6:46 a.m.: As much as possible, I try to make this a one-stop blog about all things Gannett. It boosts average time spent on my site, a basic goal of all online publishers.
ReplyDeleteHey 6:46 a.m.: I think Jim just answered "no" to your question.
ReplyDelete6:46: I suspect you are one of the high-level Gannett execs who wouldn't see or permit good journalism if it smacked in your face. Take a pill. It's just another one of many examples that illustrates how out of touch the corporate side is with it's own product.
ReplyDeleteHey early morning blog poster (aka anon 6:46 a.m.):
ReplyDeleteIf you can get this information from other places, why bother using Jim's version?
The success of the blog is tied to the fact that we CAN'T get this information from anywhere else.
I for one very much enjoy the attribution, as it is an easy way to verify items. Writing for the internet audience is very different than writing for a newspaper.
In fact, this interesting angle has completely escaped our parent company's philosophy since Al Gore invented the Internet some time ago.
If Gannett embraced the technology instead of taking the Jack Williams approach (TV didn't ruin radio and the VCR didn't eliminate movie theaters, e.g.) maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. Remember, we owned the audience... we just couldn't figure out how to reach them before someone else came up with a better mousetrap.
Oh, but I digress.
Keep up the good work, Jim. Some of us don't have the time to check on GCI developments on the net, and this blog fills the gap. It may not be news to others, but it's news to me and I don't mind seeing items that I already know about. I trust your judgement.
ReplyDeleteThis is 6:46 and you're all full of crap.
ReplyDeleteFor one thing, I'm not a journalist. For another thing, I'm not at Tyson's and not one of those trolls I keep hearing about. And for yet another thing, I'm not using Jim's version of anything. What I am doing is pointing out that nothing here is anything you can't find anywhere else with very technical programs such as Google or Linked In.
Jim even said himself:
"...As much as possible, I try to make this a one-stop blog about all things Gannett. It boosts average time spent on my site, a basic goal of all online publishers."
Boosting the average time people spend on this site is all that really concerns Jim. Just like a Gannett muckity muck that you all - including Jim himself - despise.
"a proven consensus builder". WTF!?! We basically hired another corporate kiss ass for Dickey and Krans and Ray to manipulate!!! This is another burnt out 50 plus year old PRINT media person.
ReplyDeleteHey buddy, you still have 12 years until retirement. What's the probability you will be laid off or fired before you reach retirement? Pretty high. Print is dead and as a 50 year old, you are still young enough to change careers. Get out while you can. This place will suck you in like nursing homes suck in retired elderly toothless grand parents.
6:46: It's obvious you aren't a journalist as pointed out by others. You also appear to be clueless to how social media works and its role in informing others AND how 24-hour news is developing.
ReplyDeleteIf everyone is full of crap, stop coming to the site. Better yet, build a better blog. If not, keep the slams to yourself or when Jim deserves them.
It's amazing that someone would put this sort of profile up as part of a resume. It's unreadable, non sensical and contains grammatical errors. However, it appears to be precisely the load of b.s. one would expect from a Gannett executive. Did this guy ghost write our corporate transformation plan?
ReplyDeleteEnergized by opportunities to help teams crystallize visions and propel business initiatives to exceed goals.
ReplyDeleteReally?
Hey 10:47:
ReplyDeleteIt is beyond me how you can decide I am clueless regarding social media. I’d love to hear the evidence you used in formulating that subjective opinion - even more so that you made the leap to decide I lack understanding of a 24/7 news cycle. You obviously form very subjective opinions with almost no information. But then, that is fitting with the style of this blog.
You might also take a moment to understand to whom I am referring as being full of crap. Moreover, if that is my point of view perhaps I actually need to spend even more time reading and commenting if nothing else to provide a little balance to the crap. Seems like that has something to do with basic journalism, but that’s not my bailiwick.
I’ll slam when I feel the need and the “blog owner” can censor as he pleases. I don’t need you or anyone else to tell me to stay away.
Sadly, you completely missed my point from the beginning. Since I do understand social media and I know how to Google I can get this stuff anywhere and don’t need the blog to so inform me. I would hope the blog could tell me something that isn’t readily available – even to those not savvy in the social media arts – elsewhere.
Jim said:
"... It boosts average time spent on my site, a basic goal of all online publishers."
So I will repeat myself since you obviously missed it the first time and I still believe Jim is deserving of the comment:
“Boosting the average time people spend on this site is all that really concerns Jim. Just like a Gannett muckity muck that you all - including Jim himself - despise.”
So, 10:47, consider yourself slung with crap.
P.S. There you go, Jim, more time comments, hits and controversy. Make some money.
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