Readership leadership changes
I don't often feature N&R employees that don't work in news. But in big a way, David Reno works in news. Circulation director is just his title. David has been a fierce advocate for content, working with us to put together the best newspaper we can. Sadly for us, he is leaving the paper after 17 years to become production director of our larger sister paper, The Virginian-Pilot. (It's happy for him; it's the job he's always wanted. But this is about me, not him.:))
I'll miss Dave, not only because we've worked together to keep readership up, but because he's such a provocative, innovative thinker. He's a master of turning ideas on their heads and coming up with a different, better possibility.
Fortunately for us, Dave's leaving us in good hands. His successor is Regina Howard-Glaspie, who came to us last October from Northwestern University where she was director of marketing and sales at Media Management Center. The Readership Institute, which has done much of the research we've used to improve the paper, is an arm of the Media Management Center. (She's also an N.C. native.)