Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Des Moines | Editor Rick Green named pub

The announcement came moments ago during a staff meeting followed by a press release from Corporate. From the release:

Corporate announced today Rick Green has been promoted to president and publisher of The Des Moines Register and regional president of U.S. Community Publishing's Central Group.

Green had been vice president and editor in Des Moines since 2011 and has served as co-acting publisher since May.

He replaces Laura Hollingsworth, who was promoted to an expanded Central Group of 25 markets in May. She also is publisher of The Tennessean at Nashville, where the group is now based.

(Posted from my iPhone, because my MacBook is now officially kaput.)

31 comments:

  1. That was bold.

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  2. Wait a minute ... Hollingsworth tells her own paper two days ago that she prefers to hire from the outside, and then promotes her successor from within?
    Looks like someone didn't practice what she preaches...

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  3. I don't think she said she likes to hire exclusively from outside.

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  4. Well I can't believe he's from the news side, not advertising or bean counters.
    Alert the media!

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    1. He has always had a couple feet in the business side. He's been a politician since Palm Springs.

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    2. You say "politician" like it's a bad thing, and that's naive. All managers in all industries have to be politicians because their job is to fight for resources. Rick's no dummy. His biggest fault is that he needs people to like him, and that leads him to make promises he can't or won't keep.

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  5. Way to go Rick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  7. Well, DMR editorial side is now in a free-fall after Green's reign. Let's see if the business side can do the same in the same short amount of time.

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    1. Hello 1:57. Sounds like you know him well. Old 1:40 here. My comment got erased. I didn't think Jim had a problem with the truth.

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    2. Hi this is 1:57 back to you, 1:40. My comment was erased, also. I do know RAG well. He is as passionate about journalism as his is about his own career. Well, it worked for him.

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  10. Under prior regimes this job would never have been filled by a first-time publisher.

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  11. I'm in Des Moines and this is good news. This is a tough environment for papers. Rick is a genuinely good guy who works hard, cares about people and the community and has has spent a lot of years in a newsroom. That MATTERS.

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  12. Rick Green was the interim publisher for the Desert Sun News Paper in Palm Springs. I didn't think he was an instrument of change then.

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    1. Interim publishers aren't usually instruments of change. They're place holders.

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  13. Another pick in over their head. Dickey's continuous plan to promote folks with no advertising or marketing knowledge makes you wonder about the leadership of this company. Isn't it time he stops with his palm springs/phoenix connections and do what is best for this company!

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  14. Named in a previous post prior to the announcement, but it was removed. All it said was a single sentence wondering if it was Rick Green because the announcement was in the newsroom. Why did that get removed?

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    1. You're not talking about this one from July 22, are you? Because it's still there.

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  15. It is, then, no coincidence that Brad Robertson announced his departure from the company on his facebook page today. (To take a position low enough that he didn't even list the title.) I'm sure he thought this job should be his, and he must have learned it was all a dead end. I'm not a big Rick fan, but this showed that Dickey will only promote the Palm Springs/Phoenix crowd and still wants the old Mary Stier group dead. Shows just how insecure he must really be.

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    1. Get a grip, there are several promotions that are not from the Palm Spring/Pheonix team. Some are, but Bob had some great teams there and have done well in thier new roles.
      I worked in Des Moines for a year and in that short time saw the passion and enthusiasm Rick has for the business and in journalism.
      Great move Lauara

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    2. Who has Dickey promoted that's not from Arizona in any significant role?

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    3. you have no idea what you are talking about when it comes to brad. he built a 250+ new company for gannett.

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  16. EAT YOUR HEART OUT, WASHBURN! While you're eating Green's dust.

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  17. Can Rick Green come to Cincinnati to replace Washburn? He used to work there. He needs to come soon before the Enquirer sinks completely.

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    1. I think what's left of the staff there would welcome him back. That would get rid of both Washburn and Buchanan.

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  18. Hollingsworth has mastered the game, as she follows up that Sunday interview in Nashville by showing up in Des Moines two days later to announce the new publisher who is not only from the news side but also a man!

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  19. They love Green in Cincinnati as much as they despise Nurse Ratched.

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  20. Green will eventually return to Cinci and his Ohio roots as Publisher, replacing Buchanan, for whom there is no love in Cinci or McLean.

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  21. Hey, Carwash has her fans:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2BpoNp5Z8g

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