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04/14/08
AP PRESS RELEASE
Four incumbents, three new members
elected to AP board
NEW YORK -- Four incumbents and three new members were elected
to the board of directors of The Associated Press in results
announced Monday at the annual meeting of the news cooperative.
Re-elected to three-year terms are William Dean Singleton,
who is vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews
Group and chairman of the AP board; Jon K. Rust, publisher
of the Southeast Missourian and co-president of Rust Communications;
Michael E. Reed, chief executive officer of GateHouse Media,
Inc.; and Victor F. Ganzi, president and chief executive officer
of Hearst Corporation.
The new members are Donna J. Barrett, president and chief
executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI);
Craig A. Dubow, chairman, president and chief executive officer
of Gannett Co., Inc.; and Samuel Zell, chairman and chief
executive officer of Tribune Company. Barrett and Zell will
serve three-year terms, while Dubow was elected to a one-year
term to fill an unexpired vacancy.
Douglas H. McCorkindale, former chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Gannett Inc., is retiring from the board
after serving five years as a director. Jay Smith, president
of Cox Newspapers, is also retiring after serving five years.
Dennis FitzSimons, former chairman of Tribune Company, resigned
from the board.
Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News
Corporation, will fill the vacancy created by Smith’s
retirement until the next election of directors.
The elected term of H. Graham Woodlief, vice president of
Media General, Inc., expired, and he was reappointed to a two-year
term. David Westin, president of ABC News, was reappointed
to a three-year term, and Bruce Reese, president and chief
executive officer of Bonneville International, Corp., was
reappointed to a one-year term
The Associated Press board has 18 directors elected by AP
members at their annual meeting, in staggered classes of six
each year. These directors are elected to three-year terms
and are eligible to serve up to a total of nine years. The
board can also appoint up to six additional directors if it
chooses. These seats are sometimes filled by former elected
directors who first joined the board to fill unexpired terms
and end their elected service with one or two years of eligibility
remaining.
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