Reuters | Gannett | Jim Romenesko
Months after its spinoff from parent company TEGNA, Gannett on Monday announced a new position created to oversee “all content and content-related business” at the newspaper publisher.
The new appointee is Joanne Lipman, a former deputy managing editor for The Wall Street Journal and the founder of Condé Nast Portfolio, the gilded financial publication that closed in 2009 after two years. In a release, John Zidich, the domestic publishing president of Gannett, praised Lipman for a track record of bringing “smart, growth strategies into the newsroom.”
Gannett also announced that Daniel Bernard, who used to be head of product for Time Inc., will be chief product officer at Gannett.
Lipman comes aboard half a year after the company previously known as Gannett divided its print and broadcast assets into two separate companies. The summer also saw a shakeup at the top of Gannett’s flagship publication, USA TODAY. Larry Kramer, publisher of the national daily, departed, as did several of its masthead editors.
Last week, Gannett began to rebrand its papers as belonging to “the USA TODAY network,” a move Poynter’s Rick Edmonds said might be a harbinger of further change to the newspaper publisher.