GMP promotes Cosino to head Brazos Valley Publications

TAYLOR – Navasota Examiner Publisher and Ad Director Ana Cosino has been named Brazos Valley Area publisher, adding the Madisonville Meteor to her newspaper family.

“We are so pleased Ana has agreed to assume area publisher duties for the Madisonville Meteor in addition to the Navasota Examiner,” said Daniel Philhower, president and CEO of Granite Media Partners Inc. (GMP), which owns both newspapers.

Cosino went to work for the Navasota Examiner as a receptionist in 2009, then worked as a typesetter and six months later became the newspaper’s sales rep.

She noted her 10 years with Bank of Navasota gave her valuable business relationships and community knowledge for success in advertising sales. After eight years in ad sales, she became publisher of the Examiner. “I feel like we have a really strong team. We’ve had some challenges along the way but it’s nothing we couldn’t get through,” Cosino said.

As lead sales director, Cosino trains GMP community marketing consultants. All new sales reps train with her at the Navasota office. She follows up with the sales reps as they return to their home markets.

Cosino said she is excited about strengthening the relationship with the Madisonville Meteor. “I’ve been working with them for six months and now we’re making it official,” she said.

She said she looks forward to continuing to work with the Madison County community and businesses, noting the Meteor is “Madison County’s newspaper.”

“In Grimes and Madison counties, the newspaper still works, and we want to make sure that whether it be our subscribers or readers that are reading the editorials or advertising their business, we want to help them,” Cosino said. “When they’re successful, that’s a happy ending for me.”