Esposito Named Publisher of 'Oak Ridger' (Tenn.)

By: (AP) Richard Esposito, an executive with 30 years' experience at newspapers, has been named publisher of The Oak Ridger.

Morris Publishing Group announced the appointment today.

Esposito was most recently associate publisher of The Union in Grass Valley, California. He joined the five-day, 72-hundred-circulation Oak Ridger effective July seventh, according to the paper's Augusta, Georgia-based parent company.

He succeeds John Miller, who retired June 30 after nearly three years as publisher.

Esposito who previously served for ten years as publisher and general manager of The Vidette-Messenger in Valparaiso, Indiana.