Atlanta 'Creative Loafing' Names Gannett Vet as Publisher

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By: E&P Staff Creative Loafing has tapped Gannett Co. Inc. veteran Luann Labedz as the new publisher of its Atlanta alternative paper.

Labedz replaces David Schmall, who had been publisher since 2006. On the paper's Fresh Loaf blog, Thomas Wheatley wrote that CFO Kirk MacDonald told the Atlanta staff that the company and Schmall "have parted ways."

Labedz joins Creative Loafing Atlanta from Gannett, where since 2001 she had been director of market development for The Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. She began her 18-year career at Gannett at The Coloradoan in Fort Collins.

Labedz takes her new position June.

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