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Executive Appointments Announced at Gannett Co., Inc.
Virgil L. Smith today was named vice president of talent management at Gannett Co., Inc. and promoted to chairman of the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, where he has been president and publisher since 1996. Jeffrey P. Green, senior vice president of advertising and marketing for the Honolulu Advertiser, was named to replace Smith as president and publisher in Asheville. The appointments are effective immediately. [...] Before joining the Honolulu Advertiser in 2004, Green was president of Media Solutions in Tampa, FL. From 1993 to 1999, Green was director of advertising sales and marketing for the Tampa Tribune. He also worked in marketing and advertising at The Journal in Winston-Salem, NC; the Washington Times in Washington, DC; and at Madison Newspapers in Madison, WI. He began his career as a researcher at the Journal Sentinel in Milwaukee, WI. Green has a bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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