LK Media Group, Hicks Media merge; Williams appointed publisher of Red River Sun

CHILDRESS – LK Media Group and Hicks Media have merged and the company will use the Hicks Media brand going forward with all their newspapers, as well as additional newspapers they acquire, according to a Feb. 12 announcement.
The group includes The Red River Sun, The Post Dispatch, The Floyd County Hesperian-Beacon and The Knox County News-Courier.
The company also announced the appointment of Jay Williams as publisher of the Red River Sun in Childress and the Knox County News-Courier in Knox City.
A journalism graduate of Texas A&M University in 1993, Williams spent 12 years working in the television news industry in Austin, San Antonio and Lufkin. He has worked for Hicks Media and JM Billboards for the past eight years.
Elizabeth Tanner was named managing editor of the two newspapers. She comes to Childress from Post, where she has been editor of the Post Dispatch.