By: E&P Staff Robert L. Childress, publisher of The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C., has announced his retirement. Geoff Moser, publisher of The Herald-Palladium of Saint Joseph, Mich., will replace him in September.
Childress, 66, was publisher of The Herald-Sun for nearly two years, and has been in the newspaper industry for more than 40.
Early in his career, Childress served as circulation district manager at The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Va. Thereafter, he was publisher of The News Messenger in Christiansburg, Va., the Star-Exponent of Culpeper, Va., the Danville (Va.) Register & Bee, The Messenger-Inquirer of Owensboro, Ky., and The Mountain Press in Sevierville, Tenn. The latter was owned by Paxton Media Group LLC, which bought the 116-year-old Herald-Sun in January 2005.
Upon the purchase of The Herald-Sun by Paxton, Childress became publisher.
Moser, whose paper The Herald-Palladium is also owned by Paxton, serves as group president of Paxton's newspapers in Indiana and Michigan.
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