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The Navasota Examiner welcomed Scott McDonald as publisher on Dec. 7. He succeeds Dave Kucifer, who retired after a 45-year newspaper career. McDonald, 36, comes to Navasota from Cedar Park, where he was editor of the Hill County News for three years. Raised in Monroe, La., McDonald served as a gunner’s mate in the U.S. Navy for four years. He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002, then interned as a sports writer at The Dallas Morning News. He was with The Morning News for three years.
Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Company on Dec. 15 announced the naming of a regional publisher and two new publishers for its newspapers in Texas. Scripps appointed Darrell Coleman as president and publisher of Corpus Christi Caller-Times and regional publisher of its four Texas newspapers; Jeff DeLoach as the publisher of the San Angelo Standard-Times; and Dwayne Bivona as publisher of the Times Record News in Wichita Falls. They will assumed their new roles in January. Scripps also owns the Abilene Reporter News, which Publisher Kim Nussbaum continues to lead. Coleman will report directly to Mark G. Contreras, Scripps’ senior vice president of newspapers. Nussbaum, Bivona and DeLoach will report to Bruce Hartmann, vice president of sales.
Coleman, 53, has served as the publisher of the Times Record News since 2000. During his 30-plus-year newspaper career, he has served as group controller for Harte-Hanks in Southern California and Dallas, and as operations director for its Dallas newspapers. In 1991, Coleman became vice president of finance of the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail, now owned by Scripps, and one year later was promoted as the newspaper’s vice president of operations for finance and production. He joined the Caller-Times in 1994 as vice president and chief financial officer. Texas Daily Newspaper Association honored Coleman with the Pat Taggart Award in 2006 for his extraordinary community leadership.
Bivona, 40, has held dual roles as circulation director and national advertising sales manager at The Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press and Henderson (Ky.) Gleaner. He began his newspaper career in 1990 at The Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal, where he became circulation sales and marketing manager and operations manager. Bivona has led circulation for The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y; The Daily Independent in Ashland, Ky.; and the Times Record News.
DeLoach, 49, has served as the vice president of advertising and circulation of the Caller-Times since 2008. He first joined Scripps in 1981. In addition to nine years with the Audit Bureau of Circulation, he has held key roles at Scripps-owned Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News. A past president of the Southern Circulation Manager Association, DeLoach serves on the Newspaper Association of America Circulation Federation board of directors. In 2008, the Newspaper Association of America recognized DeLoach as the “National Circulation Sales Executive of the Year.”
After almost a half-century of covering community news, Tyler Courier-Times-Telegraph Executive Editor A.J. “Jim” Giametta will close out his journalism career effective Jan. 31. Giametta, who is also Vice President of News for T.B. Butler Publishing Co., Inc., parent company of the Tyler Paper, has worked as an editor for both the Tyler Courier-Times and the Tyler Morning Telegraph for more than 20 years, joining the newspapers in November 1988. Giametta earlier was editor of the Longview Morning Journal and former managing editor of the Longview Daily News. He was also a member of the Cox Newspapers Inc., management team, having served as city editor of the Port Arthur News, when it was a Cox Newspapers Inc. property. Before coming to Texas, he worked as a wire editor for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, The Weekly Democrat in Poplarville, Miss., and was a Southern Mississippi stringer for the New Orleans Times Picayune, covering both college sports and breaking news.
Gary Dyer of Plains has joined the Denver City Press, the newspaper announced Dec. 6. Dyer and his wife, Holly, owned and published the Cowboy Country News in Plains from 1995 to 2007. Denver City is about 15 miles south of Plains.
Mike Cox, who served as Texas Press Association’s director of member services from 2000 to 2002, has joined the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department as an information specialist. His beats include law enforcement and coastal fisheries. Mike’s career includes long stints with the Austin American-Statesman, the Texas Deparment of Public Safety and the Texas Department of Transportation.
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