The daily newspaper reported Carol Hudler, special assistant to U.S. newspaper division president Bob Dickey, and former president of the South Group of community papers, has just been named its interim publisher
She replaces interim publisher Rebecca Boles, who quit last month for a public relations job at Gulf Power Co. Boles, in turn, had replaced Kevin Doyle, who announced his retirement in August. A search for a permanent publisher is continuing.
Gannett Blog had this to say about Hudler:
Hudler was president of the Nashville-based South Group of newspapers and publisher of The Tennessean until May, when the newspaper division reduced the number of regional groups to three from four, eliminating Hudler’s group in the process.
Her assignment as Dickey’s special assistant suggested Hudler had been placed into a management holding pattern, pending another suitable opening in the company. Today’s announcement appears to be the outcome.
At the end of his post, Jim Hopkins writes about the paper’s latest circulation numbers:
Pensacola’s weekday circulation is about 32,000, and Sunday is 48,000, according to the Sept. 30 AAM report.
Ten years ago, the News Journal’s weekday circulation was 62,292 — meaning it has suffered 49 percent drop since 2003. In 2010, the circulation was 42,927 – that’s 25 percent loss over that the past three years.
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For the record, our weekly circulation, both print and full digital iPad versions, is avg. 20,000. The actual readership is higher because of most issues are read by more than one reader and several times over the week. Print version: 31,860 avg. iPad digital version (complete issue, including ads): 3,984 avg. Total: 35,844
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